Assertion: vagueness | /r/HasProperty | a feature of language
Facets:
value: purely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Is vagueness purely a feature of language?
text: Vagueness is a feature of language that is used to avoid flouting Grice’s first maxim of Quality (“Do not say what you believe to be false / that for which you lack adequate evidence”) while exploiting Grice’s second maxim of Quantity (“Don’t make your contribution more informative than is required,” see Grice 1975: 45–6).