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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 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

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:su-68416
Date January 2011
CreatorsPagin, Peter
PublisherStockholms universitet, Filosofiska institutionen, Basingstoke, UK
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeChapter in book, info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
RelationVagueness and Language Use, p. 283-307

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