Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science
Online ISSN : 1884-1228
Print ISSN : 0453-0691
ISSN-L : 0453-0691
A Dynamic Semantics for Vague Predicates
Akihiro YOSHIMITSU
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2004 Volume 12 Issue 2 Pages 109-128

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Since the mid-seventies, supervaluationism has been supported because of its capacity to give a conservative semantics for vague predicates and to avoid the so-called sorites paradox. As many opponents point out, however, this framework has something elusive and leaves several things unexplained. Dynamic semantics, which I present here, is introduced to interpret the elusiveness positively from an information-theoretic point of view. Thus the aim of the paper is to present a dynamic semantics for vague predicates as a revised version of supervaluationism.

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