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“To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The arguments that have been given against supervaluationism usually aim to show that it is just incoherent. But it's not. It may be false, as a general theory of vagueness, but it's a coherent and, I think, even correct way to think about some vagueness.”

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Richard F. Heck

Richard F. Heck (August 15, 1931 – October 9, 2015) was an American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (2010). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, specifically the reaction that bears his name - the Heck reaction. His groundbreaking research revolutionized the field of organic synthesis by providing a powerful method for constructing carbon-carbon bonds. Heck was a professor at the University of Delaware and made fundamental contributions to modern synthetic chemistry. more

“Many people who call themselves deflationists are deflationists about propositional truth but not about sentential truth. I only ever mention that view to distinguish it from disquotationalism. I don't really have any objection to it, other than that I don't believe in propositions, so I don't think there's any such thing as a proposition's being true. Truth, on my view, is primarily a property of representations, such as sentences and certain kinds of mental states.”

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