Vagueness and Language Use [electronic resource] /
Égré, P.editor.
Klinedinst, N.editor.
This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; 1 Introduction: Vagueness and Language Use; Part I: Measurement and Comparison; 2 Vagueness and Scales; 3 Implicit versus Explicit Comparatives; 4 Vagueness and Comparison; 5 The Inhabitants of Vagueness Models; Part II: Approximators and Intensifiers; 6 Two Types of Vagueness; 7 Degree Modifiers and Monotonicity; 8 Clarity as Objectivized Belief; 9 Commentary on Wolf and Cohen: Reasoning about Public Evidence; Part III: The Sorites Paradox
10 Supervaluationism and Fara's Argument Concerning Higher-Order Vagueness11 Truth in a Region; 12 Vagueness and Practical Interest; 13 Vagueness and Domain Restriction; Author Index; Subject Index
This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
Philosophy of mind.
Pragmatics.
Linguistics.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Philosophy of Mind.
Pragmatics.
Linguistics, general.
Philosophy of Language.