This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about vagueness three main issues are addressed gradable expressions and comparison the semantics of degree adverbs and intensifiers such as clearly. Supervaluationism and faras argument concerning higher order vagueness pablo cobreros 2011 in paul egre klinedinst nathan eds vagueness and language use palgrave studies in pragmatics language and cognition palgrave macmillan. Part of the palgrave studies in pragmatics language and cognition book series psplc log in to check access buy ebook usd 6499 vagueness and language use introduction vagueness and language use paul egre nathan klinedinst pages 1 21 measurement and comparison front matter pages 23 23 pdf vagueness and scales scott fults pages 25 50 implicit versus explicit . Palgrave studies in pragmatics language and cognition series editors richard breheny and uli sauerland series advisors kent bach anne bezuidenhout noel burton roberts robyn carston sam glucksberg francesca happe francois recanati deirdre wilson palgrave studies in pragmatics language and cognition is a series of high quality research monographs and edited collections of essays . Abstract terms like red bald and young are vaguein formal and scientific approaches to the study of language and mind this claim is standardly taken to point to three particular related features of their meaning or use see for instance keefe 2000 kennedy 2007 smith 2008