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Analyticity Without Synonymy In Simple Comparative Logic

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In this paper I provide some formal schemas for theanalysis of vague predicatesin terms of a set of semantic relations other thanclassical synonymy, includingweak synonymy (as between ``large'' and ``huge''),antonymy (as between ``large''and ``small''), relativity (as between ``large''and ``large for a dog''), and a kind ofsupervenience (as between ``large'' and ``wide''or ``long''). All of these relationsare representable in the simple comparativelogic CL, in accordance with the basicformula: the more something is F, the more(or less) it is G. I use Carnapianmeaning postulates to define these relationsas constraints on interpretations of theformal language of CL.

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Everett, T.J. Analyticity Without Synonymy In Simple Comparative Logic. Synthese 130, 303–315 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014402110621

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