On the psychology of vague predicates

Most speakers experience unclarity about the application of predicates like <em>tall</em> and <em>red</em> 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 psy...

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Main Authors: Bonini, N, Osherson, D, Viale, R, Williamson, T
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1999
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