Vagueness, Logic and Use: Four Experimental Studies on Vagueness
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Vagueness, Logic and Use: Some Experimental Results
Although the use of experimental data is a somewhat new methodology for philosophers, research on vagueness is poised to make excellent gains from the approach. This is because any theory that purports to explain the vagueness of natural language can benefit from data about how ordinary speakers use vague words. Nonetheless, we must carefully consider the kind of evidence that we're interested ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Mind & Language
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0268-1064
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2011.01430.x