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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About the Author
PAUL EGRÉ is a CNRS Research Fellow at Institut Jean-Nicod and a member of the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research areas are the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and epistemology. Since 2008 he has been leading an ANR project on the cognitive sources of vagueness. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic , of Disputatio , and one of the founders and executive editors of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
NATHAN KLINEDINST earned a PhD in linguistics from UCLA, and is now a Lecturer in Linguistics at University College London, UK. His areas of research interest are formal semantics and pragmatics, with a focus on conditionals and modality.
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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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About the Author
PAUL EGRÉ is a CNRS Research Fellow at Institut Jean-Nicod and a member of the Department of Cognitive Studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His main research areas are the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and epistemology. Since 2008 he has been leading an ANR project on the cognitive sources of vagueness. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Philosophical Logic , of Disputatio , and one of the founders and executive editors of the Review of Philosophy and Psychology.
NATHAN KLINEDINST earned a PhD in linguistics from UCLA, and is now a Lecturer in Linguistics at University College London, UK. His areas of research interest are formal semantics and pragmatics, with a focus on conditionals and modality.