Avoiding predicate whiplash: social choice theory and linguistic vagueness

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  • Timothy W. Grinsell University of Chicago

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v22i0.2628

Keywords:

Semantics, vagueness, social choice, tolerance

Abstract

Vagueness effects predictably occur in predicates that aggregate judgments along a number of different criteria. With these types of aggregations, small changes along one of the criteria can lead to big changes in the outcome of the aggregation procedure. Vagueness results from avoiding this "whiplash" effect.

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Published

2012-09-03

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