Common sense ( as well as the Gricean maxims ; Grice 1975 ) suggests that vague descriptions are preferred by speakers over quantitative ones whenever the additional information provided by a quantitative description is irrelevant to the purpose of the communication .
logic and conversation
Paul Grice
Common sense ( as well as the Gricean maxims ; Grice 1975 ) suggests that vague descriptions are preferred by speakers over quantitative ones whenever the additional information provided by a quantitative description is irrelevant to the purpose of the communication . We are not aware of any empirical validation of this idea , but the fact that vague descriptions are frequent is fairly well documented .
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