Unruly Words: A Study Of Vague Language

In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed.

• | Author: Diana Raffman
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0199915105
• | ISBN-13: 9780199915101