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This book presents a new theory of the relationship between vagueness, context-sensitivity,
gradability, and scale structure in natural language. Heather Burnett argues that it is …

Say that two sentences are factually equivalent when they describe the same facts or
situations, understood as worldly items, ie as bits of reality rather than as representations of …

The idea of a “substructural approach to a paradox” is, naturally enough, the idea of an
approach to a paradox that uses a substructural logic. While, contrary to what some might …

In a series of works, Pablo Cobreros, Paul Égré, David Ripley and Robert van Rooij have
proposed a nontransitive system (call it 'K 3 LP') as a basis for a solution to the semantic …

Vagueness is a double-edged sword in relation to lying and truthfulness. In situations in
which a cooperative speaker is uncertain about the world, vagueness offers a resource for …

This paper examines the acceptance of so-called borderline contradictions involving vague
adjectives. A close look at the available data from previous studies points toward a …

A contradiction is the joint subsistence of what in principle cannot jointly subsist. If we accept
that there might be cases of this kind, what do we mean by 'joint subsistence'? In other terms …

Hegel's approach to soritical arguments (as well as to paradoxes in general) can be read as
a kind of conjunctive paraconsistency: the 'explosive'effect of contradictions is avoided by …

In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel develops a subtle analysis of Megarian
paradoxes: the Liar, the Veiled Man and the Sorites. In this paper, we focus on Hegel's …