Event Location and Vagueness.

Most event-referring expressions are vague it is utterly difficult, if not impossible, to specify the exact spatiotemporal location of an event from the words that we use to refer to it. We argue that in spite of certain prima facie obstacles, such vagueness can be given a purely semantic (broadly s...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 128; no. 2; pp. 313 - 337
Autores principales: Borghini, Andrea, Varzi, Achille
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2006
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