Prideaux, Paul D.: Meaning as Exclusion: A Constraint-Theoretic Account of Semantic Content, Vagueness, Rule-Following, and Communication

The philosophy of language faces three interrelated foundational problems that have resisted unified treatment. The first is the problem of semantic content: what constitutes the determinate meaning of a linguistic expression, and how is that content related to the referents, inferential roles, and use conditions associated with the expression? The second is the problem of vagueness: why are so many natural language predicates genuinely vague, and what is the correct ontological account of that