Word and Plan
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy
ISBN-10
023121281X
ISBN-13
9780231212816
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Imprint
Columbia University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 26th, 2026
Print length
228 Pages
Weight
294 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.90 x 1.60 cms
Product Classification:
Semantics, discourse analysis, etcSemantics, discourse analysis, stylisticsCommunication studiesAnalytical philosophy & Logical PositivismPhilosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledgeAnalytical philosophy and Logical PositivismPhilosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
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John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert “Sam is tall” without having any definite intention about how tall one must be to count as “tall,” and Bertha can understand his assertion without grasping such an intention. What exactly has been communicated in such a case? John MacFarlane argues that standard models of meaning and communication cannot answer this question. To answer it, he proposes, we need to see vague talk as not purely factual but in part expressive of linguistic plans. In this book, he gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
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