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Vagueness In Context Shapiro Stewart

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Publisher: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 1.18 MB

Pages: 226

Author: Shapiro, Stewart

ISBN: 9780199280391, 0199280398

Language: English

Year: 2006

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Vagueness In Context Shapiro Stewart by Shapiro, Stewart 9780199280391, 0199280398 instant download after payment.

"Stewart Shapiro's aim in Vagueness in Context is to develop both a philosophical and a formal, model-theoretic account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language like English. It is a commonplace that the extensions of vague terms vary with such contextual factors as the comparison class and paradigm cases. A person can be tall with respect to male accountants and not tall (even short) with respect to professional basketball players. The main feature of Shapiro's account is that the extensions (and anti-extensions) of vague terms also vary in the course of a conversation, even after the external contextual features, such as the comparison class, are fixed.

A central thesis is that in some cases, a competent speaker of the language can go either way in the borderline area of a vague predicate without sinning against the meaning of the words and the non-linguistic facts. Shapiro calls this open texture, borrowing the term from Friedrich Waismann."--Jacket.
Abstract: Aims to develop a comprehensive account of the meaning, function, and logic of vague terms in an idealized version of a natural language, such as English. This book shows that the extensions of vague terms vary in the course of conversations and that a competent speaker can go either way without sinning against the meaning of the words.