Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Solutions to the Sorites Paradox
- 1 Epistemicism and the Sorites Paradox
- 2 Supervaluationism, Subvaluationism and the Sorites Paradox
- 3 Contextualism and the Sorites Paradox
- 4 Incoherentism and the Sorites Paradox
- 5 Intuitionism and the Sorites Paradox
- 6 Rejection of Excluded Middle and the Sorites Paradox
- 7 Dialetheism and the Sorites Paradox
- 8 Degree Theory and the Sorites Paradox
- 9 Non-Transitivism and the Sorites Paradox
- Part II The Influence of the Sorites Paradox
- Coda
- References
- Index
4 - Incoherentism and the Sorites Paradox
from Part I - Solutions to the Sorites Paradox
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 September 2019
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Prelude
- Part I Solutions to the Sorites Paradox
- 1 Epistemicism and the Sorites Paradox
- 2 Supervaluationism, Subvaluationism and the Sorites Paradox
- 3 Contextualism and the Sorites Paradox
- 4 Incoherentism and the Sorites Paradox
- 5 Intuitionism and the Sorites Paradox
- 6 Rejection of Excluded Middle and the Sorites Paradox
- 7 Dialetheism and the Sorites Paradox
- 8 Degree Theory and the Sorites Paradox
- 9 Non-Transitivism and the Sorites Paradox
- Part II The Influence of the Sorites Paradox
- Coda
- References
- Index
Summary
Incoherentism about vagueness is the view that vague expressions/concepts are incoherent due to their vagueness. This chapter elaborates on what incoherentism is, and defends a particular incoherentist view. It presents an overview of important arguments for and against incoherentism. Among arguments for the view are claims that it provides an attractive account of the nature of vagueness, and of the way in which vagueness is associated with indeterminacy. Among arguments against the view are claims that it presupposes a mistaken view on semantic/conceptual competence, and that the view sits ill with how ubiquitous vagueness is. The specific view defended is compared to the views of Michael Dummett, Terence Horgan and Peter Unger.
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- The Sorites Paradox , pp. 78 - 94Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019
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