Vagueness and Order Effects in Color Categorization

• Published in: Journal of logic, language, and information Vol. 22; no. 4; pp. 391 - 420
• Main Authors: Egré, Paul, de Gardelle, Vincent, Ripley, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer 01.12.2013; Springer Netherlands; Springer Verlag
• Subjects: Borderlands; Cognitive science; Colors; Education; Experimentation; Inflection points; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Logic; Mental stimulation; Phenomena; Philosophy; Predicates; Psychology; Semantics; Shade tolerance; Sorites; Strict-tolerant semantics; Vagueness; Order effects; Contradictions; Color categorization; Enhanced contrast; Borderline cases; Dynamic sorites; Hysteresis; Contextualism

This paper proposes an experimental investigation of the use of vague predicates in dynamic sorites. We present the results of two studies in which subjects had to categorize colored squares at the borderline between two color categories (Green vs. Blue, Yellow vs. Orange). Our main aim was to probe...