Download or read book Vagueness and Language Use written by P. Égré and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness. Three main issues are addressed: gradable expressions and comparison, the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers (such as 'clearly'), and ways of evading the sorites paradox.