Vagueness, semantics and psychology

Philosophical Quarterly 61 (242):1-5 (2011)
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Abstract

According to extension-shifting theories of vagueness, the extensions of vague predicates have sharp boundaries, which shift as a function of certain psychological factors. Such theories have been claimed to provide an attractive explanation of the appeal of soritical reasoning. I challenge this claim: the demand for such an explanation need not constrain the semantics of vague predicates at all

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Jonas Åkerman
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