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Direct linkLee, Steven Fong-yi – ProQuest LLC, 2019
In this dissertation I argue that truth-conditional semantics for vague predicates, combined with a Bayesian account of statistical inference incorporating knowledge of truth-conditions of utterances, generates false predictions regarding negations and metalinguistic inference. I thus propose a fundamentally probabilistic semantics for vagueness…
Descriptors: Semantics, Bayesian Statistics, Metalinguistics, Language Usage
