Unruly Words: Nghiên cứu về ngôn ngữ mơ hồ

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Oxford University

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Sách nghiên cứu

2014

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55 Point

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PREFACE

1. Chapter 1: Introduction and Fundamentals

1.1. Whirlwind Tour of Competing Theories of Vagueness

1.2. Initial Observation 1: Blurred Boundaries, Sharp Boundaries, and Stopping Places

1.3. Initial Observation 2: Vagueness and Gradability

1.4. Initial Observation 3: Vagueness and Soriticality

1.5. Initial Observation 4: Vagueness and Context-Sensitivity

1.6. Vagueness and Rule-Following

1.7. Two Policies and a Caution

1.8. The In’s and Out’s of Borderline Cases

1.9. Lay of the Land

1.10. The Standard Analysis

1.11. The Incompatibilist Analysis

1.12. Objections and Replies

1.13. Replies to the Four Arguments, and Some Advantages of the Incompatibilist Analysis

1.14. Independently Fishy Features of Higher-Order Borderlines

1.15. Framework for a Semantics of Vagueness

1.16. Vagueness and Indexicality

1.17. Two Ingredients of Sense for Vague Words

1.18. Refinement: Intended Contexts, Not Contexts of Utterance

1.19. The Multiple Range Theory of Vagueness

1.20. Vagueness and Reference

1.21. Why Ranges of Application Are Not Precisifications

1.22. Progress Report and a Criterion of Vagueness

1.23. Solving the Sorites

1.24. Verdicts on Some Specific Predicates

1.25. Vagueness, V-index-sensitivity, Soriticality, Gradability, Borderlines, and Indeterminacy: Relatives or Just Friends?

1.26. Looking Ahead

5. The Competent Use of Vague Words

5.1. Testing for Hysteresis

5.2. Nonperceptual Hysteresis: Does Our Hypothesis Generalize?

5.3. Meaning and Use: Implementing the Multiple Range Semantics

5.4. An Etymological Speculation

5.5. The Truth About Tolerance

5.6. Looking Back: Rules, Reasons, and the Governing View

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index