Titlebook: Vagueness and Rationality in Language Use and Cognition; Richard Dietz Book 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 Natural Sources of Va

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The Elusive Benefits of Vagueness: Evidence from Experimentse benefits of vagueness for hearers and readers are proving to be elusive. We discuss a range of earlier controlled experiments with human participants, and we report on a new series of experiments that we ourselves have conducted in recent years. These experiments, which focus on vague expressions

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The Rationality of Vagueness number of rationality principles to the cognitive domain. Given our physical and cognitive makeup, and given the way the world is, applying those principles to conceptualization predicts not only the concepts that are actually in use, but also their vagueness, and how and when their vagueness manif

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Grounding a Pragmatic Theory of Vagueness on Experimental Data: Semi-orders and Weber’s Lawdescribed using a vague adjective like . and those that cannot. In contrast, intuitively, an explicit comparative like . does not require fulfillment of the gap requirement. Our starting point for this paper is the consideration that people cannot make precise measures under time pressure and their

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Book 2019c directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics. Vagueness in language use and cognition has traditionally been interpreted in epistemic or semantic terms. The standard view of vagueness specifically suggests that considerations of agency or rati

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2364-4109 Includes contributions by leading researchers in the field.PThis volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, an