Analyticity Without Synonymy In Simple Comparative Logic |
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Authors: | Everett Theodore J. |
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Affiliation: | (1) SUNY Geneseo Department of Philosophy, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY, 14454-1401, U.S.A |
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Abstract: | In this paper I provide some formal schemas for theanalysis of vague predicatesin terms of a set of semantic relations other thanclassical synonymy, includingweak synonymy (as between ``large' and ``huge'),antonymy (as between ``large'and ``small'), relativity (as between ``large'and ``large for a dog'), and a kind ofsupervenience (as between ``large' and ``wide'or ``long'). All of these relationsare representable in the simple comparativelogic CL, in accordance with the basicformula: the more something is F, the more(or less) it is G. I use Carnapianmeaning postulates to define these relationsas constraints on interpretations of theformal language of CL. |
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