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On the Psychology of Vague Predicates
Author(s) -
Bonini Nicolao,
Osherson Daniel,
Viale Riccardo,
Williamson Timothy
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0017.00117
Subject(s) - epistemology , psychology , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , philosophy
Most speakers experience unclarity about the application of predicates like tall and red 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 psychologized version of the ‘vagueness‐as‐ignorance’ theory is then advanced and defended.