The Sorites Paradox

Abstract

Kim is very/really/rather/quite tall. b. Kim is six feet tall. c. Kim is less tall than Lee. d. Kim is tall compared to Lee. e. Kim is as tall as we expected her to be. f. Kim is too tall to fit in this seat. g. Kim is tall enough to reach the ceiling. h. Kim is so tall that she has to buy special clothes.

<em>Being tall compared to</em> compared to being tall and being taller

“…From this perspective, gradable adjectives denote functions from objects to truth-values relative to delineations, which represent different ways of classifying objects from a given domain. For discussion of implicit comparatives in the context of delineation semantics, seeRooij (2011aRooij ( , 2011b andKennedy (2011Kennedy ( , 2019.Proceedings of ELM 1: 078-089, 2021 Jaime Castillo-Gamboa, Alexis Wellwood, and Deniz Rudin: Being tall compared to compared to being tall and being taller.…”