Demoting Higher-Order Vagueness

Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature, and its Logic

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Raffman, Diana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Higher order vagueness; Old; Prescriptive; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921590446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199570386.003.0030     Document Type: Chapter

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