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Vagueness and Language Use

By:P. Égré
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9780230238619
eText ISBN:9780230299313
Edition:0
Copyright:2011
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.