Vagueness and language use

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Vagueness and language use

edited by Paul Égré and Nathan Klinedinst

(Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

  • Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: P.Egre & N.Klinedinst PART I: MEASUREMENT AND COMPARISON Vagueness and Scales
  • S.Fults Implicit and Explicit Comparatives
  • R.van Rooij Vagueness and Comparison
  • C.Kennedy The Inhabitants of Vagueness Models
  • G.Sassoon PART II: APPROXIMATORS AND INTENSIFIERS Two Types of Vagueness
  • U.Sauerland & P.Stateva Degree Modifiers and Monotonicity
  • R.Nouwen Clarity as Objectivized Belief
  • A.Cohen & L.Wolf Reasoning about Public Evidence
  • C.Barker PART III: THE SORITES PARADOX Supervaluationism and Fara's Argument concerning Higher-Order Vagueness
  • P.Cobreros Truth in a Region
  • D.Fara Vagueness and Practical Interest
  • P.Sweeney & E.Zardini Vagueness and Domain Restriction
  • P.Pagin Index

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