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Contents; 1 Why Thick Concepts Matter; 1.1 A Brief Preview; 1.2 The Intuitive Distinction; 1.3 Two Questions about the Thick; 1.4 Thick Matters; 1.5 Looking Ahead; 2 Thick Concepts, Meaning and Evaluation; 2.1 What is Evaluation?; 2.2 What is Meaning?; 2.3 What Count as Thick Terms and Concepts?; 2.4 Global vs. Embedded Evaluations; 3 Against the Semantic View I: The Data; 3.1 Methodology: A Quick Overview; 3.2 Objectionable Thick Terms and Concepts; 3.3 Evaluations and Projection; 3.4 Evaluations and Deniability; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Against the Semantic View II: Against Rival Explanations; 4.1 Three False Starts; 4.2 Unwanted Implicatures?; 4.3 Empty Thick Concepts?; 4.4 Inverted-Commas Uses of Thick Terms?; 4.5 Deniability and Metalinguistic Negation; 4.6 Conclusion; 5 In Defense of the Pragmatic View; 5.1 T-Evaluations and Implicature; 5.2 T-Evaluations and Conventions of Use; 5.3 T-Evaluations and Presupposition; 5.4 T-Evaluations and Pragmatic Not-At-Issue Content; 5.5 Conclusion; 6 Thick Pragmatics; 6.1 T-Evaluations and Parochiality; 6.2 T-Evaluations and Communicative Interests; 6.3 Three Objections; 6.4 More on Parochiality; 6.5 The Scope of the Pragmatic View; 6.6 Conclusion; 7 Thick Concepts and Underdetermination; 7.1 Disagreement and Extension; 7.2 Underdetermination and Evaluation; 7.3 Underdetermination and Gradability; 7.4 Explaining Underdetermination+; 7.5 Conclusion; 8 Shapelessness, Disentanglement and Irreducible Thickness; 8.1 The Shapelessness Thesis; 8.2 Shapelessness and Outrunning; 8.3 The Inseparability Thesis; 8.4 Irreducibly Thick Evaluation?; 8.5 Conclusion; 9 Thick Concepts and Variability; 9.1 The Variability Argument; 9.2 Variability and Comparative Constructions; 9.3 Variability in the Positive Form?; 9.4 Variability and the Semantic View; 9.5 Variability and Specificity; 9.6 Conclusion; 10 Thick Concepts: Deflating Significance; 10.1 Fact-Value Distinctions; 10.2 Normative Reasons; 10.3 Reflection and Objectivity; 10.4 Beyond the Thick/Thin Distinction; 10.5 A Final Summary; Appendix: A List of Named Theses; Bibliography

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