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• Title:
  Counterparts as Near-Equals
• Creator:
  Dinis, Bruno;
  Jacinto, Bruno
• Description:
  This paper offers an account of the ship of Theseus paradox along the lines of the so-called nonstandard primitivism about vagueness. This account is inspired by a model of the ship of Theseus paradox offered by Dinis that considers near-equality, in the context of Nonstandard Analysis, as the proper way to model the `same as' relation. The output is a class of models which unifies the semantic account of vague gradable adjectives recently proposed by Dinis and Jacinto with that of the `'same as' relation. It does so by taking both paradoxes to arise from a confusion between relations of marginal difference between vague degrees and ``"small'' precise relations between the things that have those degrees.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2025 Bruno Dinis, Bruno Jacinto
• Date:
  2025.03.03
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Vol. 34 No. 2 (2025): June; 263-285;
  Logic and Logical Philosophy; Tom 34 Nr 2 (2025): Czerwiec; 263-285;
  2300-9802;
  1425-3305
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/56209/41691
• Subject:
  Ship of Theseus;
  nonstandard primitivism;
  near-equality
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/LLP/article/view/56209
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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• Type:
  text