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Quantitative supervaluationism

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Abstract

So far, the method of supervaluations has been mainly employed to define a non-gradable property of sentences, supertruth, in order to provide an analysis of truth. But it is also possible, and arguably at least as plausible, to define a gradable property of sentences along the same lines. This paper presents a supervaluationist semantics that is quantitative rather than qualitative. As will be shown, there are at least two distinct interpretations of the semantics — one alethic, the other epistemic — which can coherently be adopted to address key issues such as vagueness and future contingents.

Original languageEnglish
Article number181
JournalSynthese
Volume205
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2025

Keywords

  • Credibility
  • Future contingents
  • Supervaluationism
  • Vagueness
  • Verity

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