Unruly words : a study of vague language / Diana Raffman.

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Raffman, Diana

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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780199915118
0199915113
9780199392650
019939265X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Unruly wordsDDC classification:

401.43 23

LOC classification:

P325 .R26 2013eb

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Contents:

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 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 ""

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

Summary: 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.

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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.

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