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771Color Adjectives, Standards, and Thresholds: An Experimental InvestigationLinguistics and Philosophy 40 (3): 1--40. 2017.Are color adjectives ("red", "green", etc.) relative adjectives or absolute adjectives? Existing theories of the meaning of color adjectives attempt to answer that question using informal ("armchair") judgments. The informal judgments of theorists conflict: it has been proposed that color adjectives are absolute with standards anchored at the minimum degree on the scale, that they are absolute but have near-midpoint standards, and that they are relative. In this paper we report two experiments, …Read more
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844Review of Paul Elbourne, Meaning: A Slim Guide to Semantics (review)Philosophy in Review 33 (1): 31-33. 2013.
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