Timothy Williamson

requires the following assumption about what “the usual model of vagueness” is like: vagueness requires precisi cations. Wherever there is vagueness (of the type relevant to the argument, anyway), there must be different non-vague candidate meanings “in the neighborhood of” the vague term. This is consistent with lots of views of vagueness: supervaluationism; the view I prefer, that no sentence containing a vague term is either true or false; and even epistemicism. (Perhaps it is inconsistent with the view that vagueness is “ontological”, or “in the world rather than in language or thought”.) Supervaluationists obviously base their account on precisi cations. Epistemicists, at least Timothy Williamson, do too: the type of ignorance that constitutes vagueness is explained by appeal to precisi cations. (Williamson (1994) argues that our ignorance in cases of vagueness is due to semantic ignorance of which of the many precisi cations of a vague term is its unique meaning.) And on the nihilist view defended by David Braun and me (2007), vagueness is the result of semantic indecision over precisi cations. Like supervaluationists, we reject Williamson’s claim that one precisi cation is the semantic value of a given vague expression, but unlike supervaluationists we say that neither truth nor falsity can be achieved if any vague expressions are left unprecisi ed. Let’s take a concrete example. Suppose S is a borderline bald person – the sentence ‘S is bald’ is neither de nitely true…

energy as possible helping children of all ages to “make better decisions and healthy choices regarding tobacco use.” (Wigand) Dr. Wigand holds academic degrees from the University Of Buffalo School Of Medicine and biomedical Sciences and a Masters Degree in Secondary education from the University of Louisville. Dr. Wigand has always been a teacher but not all of his teaching roles have been in a classroom. While he started out teaching, he quickly transitioned into the corporate sector,…

According to many crimes that have been committed the one that seemed more intriguing to discuss was definitely the Oklahoma City Bombing, which was carried out by three individuals, but Timothy McVeigh seemed to get the biggest notoriety for the crime and also labeling him as one of the most well known mass murders around the world. In this paper it is proven that an individual 's situations will cause them to act out in a time in their life which include criminal acts doing what even seemed…

fifteen, the Federal Bureau of Investigations began to keep close tabs on Sadequee. At the age of nineteen while Sadequee was in Bangladesh celebrating his marriage, the FBI kidnapped Sadequee bringing him back to the USA on the charge of providing information to terrorist groups. At the age of twenty-three, Sadequee was sentenced to seventeen years in prison and thirty years of probation where he would not be able to have a telephone, a computer nor a smart television. Although there are a…

In 1995, the cost of a gallon of gas was $1.09, a dozen eggs were 87 cents, a loaf of bread was $1.15 and the average cost of a new car was $15,500 (The People History). Timothy McVeigh caused an upset that would be known as the biggest terrorist attack at the time. The O.J. Simpson trial will be one of the most famous verdicts in history. Windows 95 and EBay were invented and became popular quickly. 1995 was a year of homegrown terrorism, the shock of the century and computer advances that…

At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995 a bomb went off that changed the world forever. The Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City had been bombed in a terrorist attack. The Oklahoma City bombing affected America in numerous ways, including in business, the lives of the victims, and America’s Image. Timothy McVeigh, a former military man, was the one behind this attack. McVeigh earned many medals while serving in the Persian Gulf War, but after not being admitted into the Special Forces program he…

On April 19, 1995, at 9:02 a.m. Timothy McVeigh went into the annals of history for committing the single largest domestic terrorist attack in the history of the United States, killing 168 people – 19 of which were children. He was later captured that day by an Oklahoma State Trooper when he was stopped for driving a vehicle without a license plate and being in illegal possession of a firearm, then developed into the suspect of the event, indicted and convicted. On June 11, 2001, at 7:41 a.m.…

terms with a traumatic memory by creating a bridge between reality and the memory. With this bridge in place, the patient can safely cross into the territory where the trauma occurred and come to terms with the distressing moment without having to endure further mental anguish. The idea of LSD has been romanticized. People ingest this powerful chemical in hopes of discovering ancient secrets or to unlock knowledge hidden deep in the unconscious. LSD distorts the reality and perspective of an…

The thing that makes a memory worthy of being in the yearbook is one that makes you happy. It needs to be something that makes you smile when you see it in the yearbook years from now and today. You can be 60 years old and sitting with your husband and children looking back in your high school yearbook and see all the great memories that you made at your high school. You can see your homecoming memories like dressing up each day and having the homecoming parade, homecoming football game memories…

Timothy McVeigh was” born on April 23, 1968 in Lockport, New York and grew up nearby in the working-class town of Pendleton” (McVeigh, 2017).Timothy parents divorced, and he went to live with his’s father, where he started to take interest in guns. He learned to use a gun through his’s grandfather giving him target lessons. “McVeigh was also bullied as a teenager, he was also very bright, earning a partial college scholarship after graduating from high school in 1986” (McVeigh, 2017).McVeigh…