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Overview
This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.
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- ISBN-13: 9781349315741
- ISBN-10: 1349315745
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: April 2011
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.03 pounds
- Page Count: 319
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