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 in a domain is a segment of an associated scale, larger than this difference, where no object in the domain has a measure, and such that the extension of the predicate has measures on one side of the gap and the anti-extension on the other. The domain restriction imposes a central gap. / <p>Author count: 1;</p> / Vagueness and Context Factors
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-68416 |
| Date | January 2011 |
| Creators | Pagin, Peter |
| Publisher | Stockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, Basingstoke, UK |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Chapter in book, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | Vagueness and Language Use, p. 283-307 |
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