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Can an adult person recognize with the naked eye that John is tall, but not, simultaneously, that Peter is short? It depends, obviously, on the (ostensible) height of both John and Peter, and from what it contextually can mean to be, respectively, a tall and a short person, that is, of perceptively capturing the meanings of these two words when applied to people in some particular context. It also seems, indeed, that people learn the meaning of a word by, simultaneously and by polarity, learning the meaning of one of its opposite words, or antonyms. Antonyms are used in plain language, and usually they are clearly distinguished from negation; it is the case, for instance, of “empty” and “not full”, “short” and “not tall”, and so on.
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Trillas, E. (2017). Antonyms. Negation, and the Fuzzy Case. In: On the Logos: A Naïve View on Ordinary Reasoning and Fuzzy Logic. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, vol 354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56053-3_3
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