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- We focus here on linguistic vagueness, as it manifests itself with general terms; for it is this sort of indeterminacy which defines what most researchers call vagueness, and which has led the push in some schools of thought to “eliminate vagueness” or to construct languages that do not manifest vagueness.
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Feb 8, 1997 · Supervaluationists encourage the view that all vagueness is a matter of linguistic indecision: the reason why there are borderline cases is that we have not bothered to make up our minds. The method of supervaluation allows us to assign truth-values prior to any decisions.
Sep 26, 2019 · Vagueness is just one among many sources of linguistic indeterminacy. Examples of vague terms are often really examples of open texture, generality, or genericity. With the vagueness definition at hand, I will try to obtain clarity by relating vagueness to these realities.
- Ana Escher
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- 2019
Practical indeterminacy arises in language when competence in the language is not enough to know whether an expression applies to known facts, and in law when legal competence is not enough to know the legal consequences of a known situation.
Ambiguity and vagueness are two varieties of interpretive uncertainty which are often discussed together, but are distinct both in their essential features and in their significance for semantic theory and the philosophy of language.
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We focus here on linguistic vagueness, as it manifests itself with general terms; for it is this sort of indeterminacy which defines what most researchers call vagueness, and which has led the push in some schools of thought to “eliminate vagueness” or to construct languages that do not manifest vagueness.
The concepts of ambiguity, indeterminacy, deixis, and vagueness are fundamental to linguistic theory in general and to semantic theory in particular. Yet linguists have made surprisingly little effort to understand them.
Feb 8, 1997 · Vagueness is standardly defined as the possession of borderline cases. For example, ‘tall’ is vague because a man who is 1.8 meters in height is neither clearly tall nor clearly non-tall. No amount of conceptual analysis or empirical investigation can settle whether a 1.8 meter man is tall.
