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Vagueness in Implicature: The Case of Modified Adjectives
Journal of Semantics, 2019 We show that the interpretation of sentences like John is not very Adj depends on whether Adj is vague. We argue that this follows from a constraint on the interaction between vagueness and conversational implicature, a domain that has not been studied ...
Timothy Leffel +3 more
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4.3. Vaghezza ontologica senza scetticismo
Rivista di Estetica, 2012 Ontic vagueness is defended by appealing to a realist and objectivist perspective. First, ontic vagueness is distinguished from epistemic vagueness and semantic vagueness.
Elisa Paganini
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Defence Studies, 2019 It has frequently been observed in the literature on hybrid wars that there is a grey zone between peace and war, and that hybrid wars are conflicts which are not clear cases of war.
J. Almäng
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Theories of vagueness and theories of law [PDF]
, 2019 It is common to think that what theory of linguistic vagueness is correct has implications for debates in philosophy of law. I disagree. I argue that the implications of particular theories of vagueness on substantive issues of legal theory and practice ...
Silk, Alex
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Positioning Localities for Vague Spatial Location Description: A Supervaluation Semantics Approach
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 In the big data era, spatial positioning based on location description is the foundation to the intelligent transformation of location-based-services. To solve the problem of vagueness in location description in different contexts, this paper proposes a ...
Peng Ye +3 more
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Informal Logic, 2009 Paradoxes of vagueness have been on the agenda since classical antiquity. Some theorists have addressed them by curtailing logical principles (bivalence, excluded middle). Others pro-pose to extrude vagueness as an illusion of sorts rooted overlooking an
Nicholas Rescher
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The Vagueness of ‘Vague’: Rejoinder to Hull [PDF]
Mind, 2005 Is ‘vague’ vague? Why so much fuss about a single word? One reason, I think, is that a lot depends on how we settle the question. For example, Frege famously remarked that logic must be restricted to non-vague predicates. But if ‘vague’ is vague, then so is ‘non-vague’, hence the restriction is itself vague and, therefore, helpless. For another example,
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Vagueness, Identity, and the Dangers of a General Metaphysics in Archaeology
Open Philosophy, 2021 Archaeology is currently bound to a series of metaphysical principles, one of which claims that reality is composed of a series of discrete objects. These discrete objects are fundamental metaphysical entities in archaeological science and posthumanist ...
Ribeiro Artur
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Expression-Meaning and Vagueness [PDF]
, 2019 Brian Loar attempted to provide the Gricean program of intention-based semantics with an account of expression-meaning. But the theory he presented, like virtually every other foundational semantic or meta-semantical theory, was an idealization that ...
Schiffer, Stephen
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Ergo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023 Epistemicism associates vagueness with ignorance produced by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions in our language resulting from small changes in usage.
Aleksander Domosławski
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