Adèle Mortier
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View article: On the Optimality of Vagueness: "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims
On the Optimality of Vagueness: "Around", "Between", and the Gricean Maxims Open
Why is ordinary language vague? We argue that in contexts in which a cooperative speaker is not perfectly informed about the world, the use of vague expressions can offer an optimal tradeoff between truthfulness (Gricean Quality) and infor…