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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- ""2. The In�s and Out�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 ""
- 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
- 3.3. Refinement: Intended Contexts, Not Contexts of Utterance 3.4. Selective Review
- 3.5. Looking Ahead
- 4. The Multiple Range Theory of Vagueness
- 4.1. Vagueness and Reference
- 4.2. Why Ranges of Application Are Not Precisifications