On the psychology of vague predicates
Mind and Language 14 (4):377–393 (1999)
Abstract
Most speakers experience unclarity about the application of predicates like tall and red to liminal cases. We formulate alternative psychological hypotheses about the nature of this unclarity, and report experiments that provide a partial test of them. A psychologized version of the ‘vagueness-as-ignorance’ theory is then advanced and defended.DOI
10.1111/1468-0017.00117
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