Some notes on the value of vagueness in everyday communication

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 81 PART 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 344-349

  Kluck, Nora ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communication; Philosophy of language; Pragmatics; Semantics; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

HUMAN PERCEPTION; LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE; PRAGMATICS; SHARP BOUNDARIES; VAGUE PREDICATE; VAGUENESS;

COMMUNICATION; DATA PROCESSING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SEMANTICS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84880449232     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14058-7_35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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