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(2002) Synthese 130 (2).
In this paper I provide some formal schemas for theanalysis of vague predicatesin terms of a set of semantic relations other thanclassical synonymy, includingweak synonymy (as between ``large'' and ``huge''),antonymy (as between ``large''and ``small''), relativity (as between ``large''and ``large for a dog''), and a kind ofsupervenience (as between ``large'' and ``wide''or ``long''). All of these relationsare representable in the simple comparativelogic CL, in accordance with the basicformula: the more something is F, the more(or less) it is G. I use Carnapianmeaning postulates to define these relationsas constraints on interpretations of theformal language of CL.
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Everett, T. J. (2002). Analyticity without synonymy in simple comparative logic. Synthese 130 (2), pp. 303-315.
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