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Unruly words : a study of vague language /

In 'Unruly Words', Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raffman, Diana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013.
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520 8 |a In 'Unruly Words', Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed. 
505 0 |a Cover -- UNRULY WORDS -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- 1. Introduction and Fundamentals -- 1.1. Whirlwind Tour of Competing Theories of Vagueness -- 1.2. Initial Observation 1: Blurred Boundaries, Sharp Boundaries, and Stopping Places -- 1.3. Initial Observation 2: Vagueness and Gradability 
505 8 |a 1.4. Initial Observation 3: Vagueness and Soriticality 1.5. Initial Observation 4: Vagueness and Context-Sensitivity -- 1.6. Vagueness and Rule-Following -- 1.7. Two Policies and a Caution -- 1.8. Selective Review -- 1.9. Looking Ahead 
505 8 |a ""2. The Inâ€?s and Outâ€?s of Borderline Cases """"2.1. Lay of the Land ""; ""2.2. The Standard Analysis ""; ""2.3. The Incompatibilist Analysis ""; ""2.4. Objections and Replies ""; ""2.5. Replies to the Four Arguments, and Some Advantages of the Incompatibilist Analysis "" 
505 8 |a 2.6. Independently Fishy Features of Higher-Order Borderlines 2.7. Selective Review -- 2.8. Looking Ahead -- 3. Framework for a Semantics of Vagueness -- 3.1. Vagueness and Indexicality -- 3.2. Two Ingredients of Sense for Vague Words 
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