{"id":1370,"date":"2010-03-15T05:15:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T09:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1370"},"modified":"2010-03-14T17:04:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T21:04:38","slug":"lfrg-315-igor-yanovich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/03\/15\/lfrg-315-igor-yanovich\/","title":{"rendered":"LFRG 3\/15 - Igor Yanovich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>WHAT: Work in progress<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHO: Igor Yanovich<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nTITLE: A non-standard theory of vagueness<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHEN: March 15, 11.30AM - 1PM<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWHERE: 32-D831<\/P><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><P><br clear='none'\/>\nI will present a &#8220;solution&#8221; of the sorites paradox (aka the heap paradox, the bald man paradox, etc.) which I believe is new and distinct from earlier<br clear='none'\/>\nsolutions.<br clear='none'\/>\nThe main idea is that vague predicates come with meaning postulates which are true in a certain kind of infinite models, and are useful for some kinds of<br clear='none'\/>\npractical reasoning, but which lead to dire consequences when used as axioms for reasoning about finite models such as the ones of the sorites paradox<br clear='none'\/>\nsituations.<\/P><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FUTURE MEETINGS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>3\/22 no meeting - Spring break<\/li>\n<li>3\/29 Patrick Grosz<\/li>\n<li>4\/5 Peter Graff, practice talk for CLS<\/li>\n<li>4\/11 DaeYoung Sohn and Yasutada Sudo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT: Work in progress WHO: Igor Yanovich TITLE: A non-standard theory of vagueness WHEN: March 15, 11.30AM - 1PM WHERE: 32-D831 I will present a &#8220;solution&#8221; of the sorites paradox (aka the heap paradox, the bald man paradox, etc.) which I believe is new and distinct from earlier solutions. The main idea is that vague [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1370\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}