Analyticity without synonymy in simple comparative logic

Theodore J. Everett

pp. 303-315

in: Synthese 130 (2), 2002.

Abstrakt

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.

Cited authors

Carnap Rudolf