Vagueness is a pervasive feature of natural language, which has been studied from a range
of perspectives. This review focuses on recent empirical insights into vagueness that have …

In a world of change, we see species go from common to rare and yet are unable to point to
any moment at which they ceased to be common. We see people grow old and yet cannot …

Presupposition, vagueness, and oddness can lead to some sentences failing to have a clear
truth value. The homogeneity property of plural predication with definite descriptions may …

This book is about what is nowadays regarded as one of the most venerable and difficult
philosophical paradoxes (Priest 2003, p. 9): the Sorites Paradox (in better English,'Heaper …

This paper examines the acceptance of so-called borderline contradictions involving vague
adjectives. A close look at the available data from previous studies points toward a …

We present an investigation of the ways in which speakers' subjective perspectives are likely
to affect the meaning of gradable adjectives like tall or heavy. We present the results of a …

We show that the interpretation of sentences like John is not very Adj depends on whether
Adj is vague. We argue that this follows from a constraint on the interaction between …

Because musicians are trained to discern sounds within complex acoustic scenes, such as
an orchestra playing, it has been hypothesized that musicianship improves general auditory …

Recent experiments have shown that naive speakers find borderline contradictions involving
vague predicates acceptable. In Cobreros et al.(Journal of Philosophical Logic, 41, 347 …

This chapter explores the intersection of experimental philosophy and philosophical logic. It
considers a distinction between pure and applied logic. It sketches some ways in which …