Unruly Words

Unruly Words
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9780199915101
ISBN-13 : 0199915105
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Book Synopsis Unruly Words by : Diana Raffman

Download or read book Unruly Words written by Diana Raffman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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