Assertion: vagueness | /r/HasProperty | ambiguity
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text: Language might be said to imprecise because it exhibits one or more of the following features: vagueness; ambiguity.
text: Vagueness is then uncertainty about the application of the predicate in question, once all the other epistemic uncertainty is stipulated away –
text: 17.5 VAGUENESS AS AMBIGUITY
text: My preferred view, that vagueness is indeterminacy, is a simple generalization of this view to non‐predicates.
text: Vagueness also differs from overbreadth in another way: an uncertain law that addresses, even in its most expansive interpretation, only behavior that constitutionally may be regulated may still be void for vagueness, but, by definition, cannot be void for overbreadth.
text: So, what, on the view that vagueness is ambiguity, is the proposition asserted by an utterance of ‘Anita is rich.
text: The existence of several dimensions of variation opens the door to a notion that is related to, but different from vagueness: ambiguity , , .