Original scientific paper
Borderline Cases and Definiteness
Zoltán Vecsey
; Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Szeged, Hungary
Abstract
Borderline cases of vague predicates are often characterized with the help of a definiteness operator. Although such operators can certainly contribute to the solution of the problem of vagueness, they may also generate unexpected consequences. Either borderlineness is identified implicitly with a well-defined range of cases, or borderline cases are seen as being definitely borderline. In this paper I argue that we can avoid these consequences by providing an asymmetric definition of borderline cases.
Keywords
Asymmetric definition; borderline cases; definiteness; vagueness
Hrčak ID:
93135
URI
Publication date:
30.11.2012.
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