Resumo

MENA, Ricardo. The Sorites Meets the Many. Tópicos (México) [online]. 2014, n.47, pp.139-158. ISSN 0188-6649.

The objective of this paper is to understand certain issues that come up once we recognize that a good number of natural language predicates are indeterminate in two different ways. For example, the predicate 'is a mountain' is both vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. Throughout the paper I focus on how to distinguish these two kinds of indeterminacy, and on a certain problem that supervaluationism has when it is recognized that a single predicate can be vague and susceptible to the problem of the many. The problem is that supervaluationism loses its ability to capture our intuitions concerning sharp cut-offs. Finally, I offer a solution to this problem.

Palavras-chave : philosophy of language; philosophy of logic; vagueness; the problem of the many; semantic indeterminacy; supervaluationism.

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