Unruly Words
Author | : Diana Raffman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199915101 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199915105 |
Rating | : 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
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.