Vagueness and language use

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New York: Palgrave-Macmillan (2011)
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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

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P325.V25 2011

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9780230238619   0230238610

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Supervaluationism and Fara's paradox of higher-order vagueness.Pablo Cobreros
Truth in a Region.Delia Graff Fara
Vagueness and comparison.Christopher Kennedy
Vagueness and Practical Interests.Paula Sweeney & Elia Zardini
Implicit versus explicit comparatives.Robert Van Rooij

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