Vagueness and Domain Restriction
This paper develops an idea of saving ordinary uses of vague predicates from the Sorites by means of domain restriction. A tolerance level for a pred- icate, along a dimension, is a difference with respect to which the predicate is semantically insensitive. A central gap for the predicate+dimension...
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Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen
2011
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| Online Access: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-68416 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:9780230238619 |