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Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle
Author(s) -
Field Hartry
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
noûs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.574
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1468-0068
pISSN - 0029-4624
DOI - 10.1111/0029-4624.00200
Subject(s) - indeterminacy (philosophy) , citation , field (mathematics) , degree (music) , computer science , psychology , mathematical economics , epistemology , library science , mathematics , philosophy , pure mathematics , physics , acoustics
1. Referential indeterminacy (for instance, indeterminacy as to what a singular term stands for or what a general term has as its extension) is a widespread phenomenon. Ordinary vagueness is a special case of indeterminacy: for instance, it is indeterminate whether the word ‘rich’ has in its extension certain moderately rich people, and it is indeterminate precisely which atoms are parts of the referent of ‘Clinton’s body’ at a certain time. But there are more interesting examples as well.