Then IA would tend to have little use for this property at all since, presumably, every chihuahua would be small and every alsatian large, making each of the combinations {large, chihuahua} (which denotes the empty set) and {large, alsatian} (the set of all alsatians) useless.
existing treatments of gradables in GRE fail to take the "efficiency of language" into account (Barwise and Perry 1983; see our Section 2).