Verities, the sorites, and Theseus' ship

DOI10.1007/S11229-015-0724-2MaRDI QIDQ1708889zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Igor Douven

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-015-0724-2

zbMATH Keywords

EdgingtonprobabilitysoritesTheseus' shipvagueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Probability and inductive logic (03B48)

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