This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Synthese spans the topics of Epistemology, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Coverage includes the theory of knowledge; ...

When Tara Zrinski’s oldest son was 4, they would walk along the Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem to see the ducks and geese. One day Bryton asked his mother, “Are all birds ducks?” Zrinski explained that ...

The goal of this paper is a comprehensive analysis of basic reasoning patterns that are characteristic of vague predicates. The analysis leads to rigorous reconstructions of the phenomena within ...

OF all the branches of philosophy, logic alone has had the distinction of being claimed by the exact sciences as one of them. The event is of recent occurrence; in fact, it has happened only since ...