Unruly Words —— A Study of Vague Language

----- 难以控制的话语：模糊语言研究

ISBN: 9780199915101 出版年：2014 页码：241 Raffman, Diana Oxford University Press

In Unruly Words, Diana Raffman advances a new theory of vagueness which, unlike previous accounts, is genuinely semantic while preserving bivalence. According to this new approach, called the multiple range theory, vagueness consists essentially in a term's being applicable in multiple arbitrarily different, but equally competent, ways, even when contextual factors are fixed. In the broadest terms, vagueness is a species of arbitrariness.