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Ideas of Roy Sorensen, by Text

[American, fl. 2002, Professor at Dartmouth College.]

2001 Vagueness and Contradiction
Intro p.1 9116 Vague words have hidden boundaries
Intro p.4 9118 The colour bands of the spectrum arise from our biology; they do not exist in the physics
Intro p.8 9119 No attempt to deny bivalence has ever been accepted
1.4 p.38 9121 Illusions are not a reason for skepticism, but a source of interesting scientific information
11.1 p.168 9137 Banning self-reference would outlaw 'This very sentence is in English'
11.2 p.173 9139 If nothing exists, no truthmakers could make 'Nothing exists' true
11.6 p.183 9140 Which toothbrush is the truthmaker for 'buy one, get one free'?
3.2 p.61 9122 God cannot experience unwanted pain, so God cannot understand human beings
4.3 p.74 9124 We are unable to perceive a nose (on the back of a mask) as concave
4.3 p.75 9125 Denying problems, or being romantically defeated by them, won't make them go away
6.1 p.96 9126 Bayesians build near-certainty from lots of reasonably probable beliefs
6.3 p.99 9128 It is propositional attitudes which can be a priori, not the propositions themselves
6.3 p.100 9130 Attributing apriority to a proposition is attributing a cognitive ability to someone
6.3 p.100 9129 I can buy any litre of water, but not every litre of water
6.4 p.101 9131 Two long understandable sentences can have an unintelligible conjunction
7.2 p.112 9132 An offer of 'free coffee or juice' could slowly shift from exclusive 'or' to inclusive 'or'
7.7 p.121 9133 Propositions are what settle problems of ambiguity in sentences
8.1 p.125 9134 The negation of a meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful
8.4 p.132 9135 We now see that generalizations use variables rather than abstract entities
8.5 p.138 9136 The paradox of analysis says that any conceptual analysis must be either trivial or false