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 multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed.

Year

2014

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Editions

1

Pages

215

ISBN

9780199915101

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