Abstract
We seek to show that some properties of vague scalar adjectives are consequences of rational communication. Theories of vagueness are usually directed at a cluster of traditional philosophical desiderata: how vagueness fits into a theory of truth (or metaphysics), the sorites, and related issues. These are important, and we will have more to say about some of them, but we also seek to refocus the analysis of vagueness, moving away from consideration of abstract philosophical problems, and towards consideration of the problems faced by ordinary language users. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Frazee, J., & Beaver, D. (2010). Vagueness is rational under uncertainty. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6042 LNAI, pp. 153–162). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_16
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