British-American analytic philosophy and metaphysics

Kit Fine

1946

Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. His 1975 paper "Vagueness, Truth and Logic" gave supervaluationism its definitive form, showing how a vague language can be evaluated across all its admissible sharpenings while preserving the logical truths of classical logic. He has since moved away from that view himself.

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The Sorites Paradox

One grain of sand is not a heap. Adding a single grain never turns a non-heap into a heap. So heaps do not exist.

c. 350 BCE20 min read