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Diana Raffman’s book “Unruly Words” is a remarkable achievement and contribution to the study of vagueness. Parts of Raffman’s…
Truth-conditional semantic theory for natural language appears to be flourishing. The work deploys apparatus from the tradition…
According to the principle Grice calls ‘Modified Occam's Razor’ (MOR), ‘Senses are not to be multiplied beyond necessity’. More…
We develop a mathematical theory for comparative sorites, considered in terms of a system mapping pairs of stimuli into a binary…
(cf. Fara 2000, pp. 49f.). The brackets indicate that the bracketed parts will appear in some instances of the sorites paradox…
Paradoxes called "sorites" ("heap") or "falakros" ("bald man") can be traced back to Eubulides of the Megarian school who was a…
In this paper I offer a critique of the recent popular strategy of giving a contextualist account of vagueness. Such accounts…
The reason, according to the contextualist, that precise boundaries for expressions like 'heap' or 'tall for a basketball player…
Etude de la notion de personnalite foetale qui entre dans le debat public sur le statut moral de l'avortement. Rejetant l…