Avoiding predicate whiplash: social choice theory and linguistic vagueness  

Oleh:

Grinsell, Timothy W.

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: Proceedings of the 22nd Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference, held at University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, May 18-20, 2012, page 424–440.
Topik: Semantics; vagueness; social choice; tolerance
Fulltext: 3495-6811-1-PB.pdf (176.79KB)

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Vagueness effects predictably occur in predicates that aggregate judgments along a number of different criteria. With these types of aggregations, small changes along one of the criteria can lead to big changes in the outcome of the aggregation procedure. Vagueness results from avoiding this ‘whiplash’ effect.

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