Vagueness and Practical Interests

In Paul Egre & Nathan Klinedinst (eds.), Vagueness and Language Use. Palgrave MacMillan (2011)
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In this paper we focus mainly on a kind of contextualism theory of vagueness according to which the context dependence has its source in the variation of our practical interests. We largely focus on Fara's version of the theory but our observations work at different levels of generality, some relevant only to the specifics of Fara's theory others relevant to all contextualist theories of a certain type.

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Elia Zardini
Complutense University of Madrid
Paula Sweeney
University of Aberdeen

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