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supervaluationism: a standalone construct

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treatment of vagueness on which a statement is true if true on every admissible precisification of its vague terms, false if false on all.

In logic, supervaluationism refers to treatment of vagueness on which a statement is true if true on every admissible precisification of its vague terms, false if false on all. This meaning comes from Fine (1975) in Synthese.[1]

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References

  1. Fine, K. (1975). Vagueness, truth and logic. Synthese, 30(3-4), 265-300. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00485047

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