Assertion: vagueness | /r/CapableOf | offer resource
Facets:
value: in situations
type: TEMPORAL
value: for truthfulness
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: In situations in which a cooperative speaker is uncertain about the world, vagueness offers a resource for truthfulness: it avoids one’s having to commit oneself to more precise utterances that would be either false or unjustifiably true, and it is arguably an optimal solution to satisfy the Gricean maxims of Quality and Quantity.
text: First, we show that in (p. 356) situations in which a cooperative speaker wishes to give information about a state of affairs about which she is uncertain, vagueness offers a resource for truthfulness: it avoids making more precise utterances which may be either false or not justifiably true (section 27.3).