Hypercomparatives

DOI10.1023/A:1004933708851MaRDI QIDQ1297032zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Morton

Publication date 3 August 1999

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004933708851

zbMATH Keywords

formal languagesvaguenesslogical consequencecontextual informationhigher-order relationlanguage of communicationrelation between the positive and comparative degrees of a predicaterelation-words with more than three argument placessemantical theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Logic of natural languages (03B65)

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