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- Title
Tolerance and higher-order vagueness.
- Authors
Pagin, Peter
- Abstract
The idea of higher-order vagueness is usually associated with conceptions of vagueness that focus on the existence of borderline cases. What sense can be made of it within a conception of vagueness that focuses on tolerance instead? A proposal is offered here. It involves understanding 'definitely' not as a sentence operator but as a predicate modifier, and more precisely as an intensifier, that is, an operator that shifts the predicate extension along a scale. This idea is combined with the author's earlier approach to the semantics of vague expressions, which builds on the idea of a central gap associated with a predicate. The central gap approach is generalized to handle arbitrarily many iterations of 'definitely'.
- Subjects
TOLERATION; VAGUENESS (Philosophy); VAGUENESS doctrine (Constitutional law); PREDICATE (Logic); LANGUAGE &; logic
- Publication
Synthese, 2017, Vol 194, Issue 10, p3727
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-015-0798-x