Contradictions at the borders

David Ripley

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_10

Contradictions at the borders

David Ripley

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The purpose of this essay is to shed some light on a certain type of sentence, which I call a borderline contradiction. A borderline contradiction is a sentence of the form Fa ∧¬Fa, for some vague predicate F and some borderline case a of F, or a sentence equivalent to such a sentence. For example, if Jackie is a borderline case of 'rich', then 'Jackie is rich and Jackie isn't rich' is a borderline contradiction. Many theories of vague language have entailments about borderline contradictions; correctly describing the behavior of borderline contradictions is one of the many tasks facing anyone offering a theory of vague language.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Vagueness in Communication - International Workshop, ViC 2009, Held as Part of ESSLLI 2009, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Rick Nouwen, Robert van Rooij, Uli Sauerland, Hans-Christian Schmitz
Publisher	Springer
Pages	169-188
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Print)	9783642184451
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_10 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8-10
Publication status	Published - 8 Feb 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, ViC 2009, Held as Part of 2009 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, ESSLLI 2009 - Bordeaux, France Duration: 20 Jul 2009 → 24 Jul 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6517 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, ViC 2009, Held as Part of 2009 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, ESSLLI 2009
Country/Territory	France
City	Bordeaux
Period	20/07/09 → 24/07/09

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Ripley, D. (2011). Contradictions at the borders. In R. Nouwen, R. van Rooij, U. Sauerland, & H.-C. Schmitz (Eds.), Vagueness in Communication - International Workshop, ViC 2009, Held as Part of ESSLLI 2009, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 169-188). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6517 LNAI). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_10, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8-10

Ripley, David. / Contradictions at the borders. Vagueness in Communication - International Workshop, ViC 2009, Held as Part of ESSLLI 2009, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Rick Nouwen ; Robert van Rooij ; Uli Sauerland ; Hans-Christian Schmitz. Springer, 2011. pp. 169-188 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Ripley, D 2011, Contradictions at the borders. in R Nouwen, R van Rooij, U Sauerland & H-C Schmitz (eds), Vagueness in Communication - International Workshop, ViC 2009, Held as Part of ESSLLI 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6517 LNAI, Springer, pp. 169-188, International Workshop on Vagueness in Communication, ViC 2009, Held as Part of 2009 European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, France, 20/07/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8_10, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8-10

Contradictions at the borders. / Ripley, David.
Vagueness in Communication - International Workshop, ViC 2009, Held as Part of ESSLLI 2009, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Rick Nouwen; Robert van Rooij; Uli Sauerland; Hans-Christian Schmitz. Springer, 2011. p. 169-188 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6517 LNAI).

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