Index

Actionandvagueness 88-9,92-5, 174-81

Assertion 131-3

Atomic Boolean algebra 32

Bivalence, Principle of 19

Boolean algebra 33

Boolean Precision 35, 225, 238

size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman">Booleanism 32-6, 206, 266

Borderlineness 16

Distinction between borderlineness and vagueness 41, 224

Propositional 51

Relation to determinacy 51

Relation to vagueness 237

Sentential 47, 52

Theroleof 133-5

Comparative probability rankings 145

Complete Boolean algebra 32

Conditioning

Jeffreyconditioning 110

Onapreciseproposition 106-9

On a vague proposition 114-16

Conjunctive Syllogism 8

Cutoff point 6

Sharp 21

Decision theory 171-4

Preference axioms 188

Representation theorem 189

Degrees of truth 121

Dempster-Shafertheory 125

Determinacy 51

Determinacy at all orders 132

Determinacyoperator 51,237

Determinacy* 132, 135

Disquotational truth 19

dtruth 19

Dutch book arguments 139-44

Edgington, Dorothy 121

Epistemicism 17-20, 79, 150

Evidential role 97, 153

Excluded middle, law of 7

Expressivism

About vagueness 152-7

Factivementalstateoperators 101

Field, Hartry 8, 40, 43, 125

Fieldianprobabilitytheory 125

size=1 color=black face="Times New Roman">Fine, Kit 32, 127, 226, 260, 312

Forced march sorites 135

Fuzzylogic 121

Gap principle 137

Graff Fara

Gap principle 137

Graff Fara, Delia 136

Higher-order vagueness

And assertion 131-3

And propositional fundamentality 267

And uncertainty 127-31

Paradoxes involving belief 136-8

Paradoxes of 262-7

Symmetry semantics 251-5

The forced marched sorites 135

Ignorance

and borderlineness 21

Vagueness related 17

Index 34, 209, 269-70, see also Maximally strong consistent proposition

Indifference 38, 195, 223, 239

Inexact evidence 97-106

Jeffreyconditioning 110

Jeffrey decision theory 171-4

Keefe, Rosanna 17

Linguistic theories of modality 50 Linguistic theories of vagueness 49

Maximally strong consistent precise proposition 35, 105, 113, 117, 153, 161, 179, 183, 195, 196, 225, 231, 236, 253, 272-4, 282, 286

Maximally strong consistent proposition 34, 172, 209, 276, see also index 291

Metalinguistic safety principles 79-84 Modality

Logic of vagueness and 276-88 Montague's paradox 62

Nihilism 10

Radical Nihilism 11

Semantic Nihilism 11

Non-standard probability theory

Dempster-Shafertheory 125

Field's theory 125

Schiffer's theory 124

Practical irrelevance of vague attitudes 169

Precisification 18, 113, 222, 227, 238, 259, 276, 283, 289

Admissible 18, 24

Of a vague property 223

Precision at all orders 287

Precision* 287

Preferences 182

and vagueness 182-5

PrincipleofPlenitude 36, 118, 119,223,

239

Probabilism 38-40, 138-48

Propositional vagueness 31

Pseudo Modus Ponens 8

Quantifying in 57-9

Rational Supervenience 37, 161, 223, 239 Ofhypothetical on categorical beliefs 159

Schiffer, Stephen 31, 43, 100

Semantic indecision 49, 312-13, 318-25

Semantic plasticity 21, 49, 79

Sorites paradox 3

Supervaluationism 17-22, 24, 27, 211, 260-3, 276-8, 288

Representation theorem 289-95

Supervaluational semantics 227-9

Supervenience

Of vague on precise 42, 284-8

Rational Supervenience 37

Symmetries 38, 238-57, 314

Symmetry semantics 249-51

The problem of the many 60

Universal instantiation 10

Truth value gaps 22

Universalism 10

ur-prior 105, 152

ur-priors 37

Utility function 38,92,196

utility function 172

Vague identity 299-304

Vagueobjects 60-1,296,307-10

Vague parthood 304-7

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and modality 276-88

Expressivisimabout 152-7

Propositional 31

Relation to borderlineness 237

Relation to determinacy 237

Taking vagueness as primitive 235-7

Validity 26

Global 26

Local 26

Preservation of determinacy 26

Preservation of determinacy at all orders 27

Williamson, Timothy 17, 79, 150

Worlds 228,269-74