Is Higher-Order Vagueness Coherent?
This chapter focuses on the No Sharp Boundaries form of the Sorites, which, independently of the kind of considerations used to support the universally quantified form of major premise in the Sorites paradoxes of Chapters 1 and 2, seems to show that vagueness is per se paradoxical. A natural response to the No Sharp Boundaries paradox is canvassed, facilitated by the introduction of a definiteness operator. But it is shown that, on natural assumptions about the logic of that operator, higher-order vagueness does indeed emerge as intrinsically paradoxical.
2019 ◽
pp. 411-436
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1973 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 426-427
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Vol 36
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pp. 328-329
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Vol 50
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Vol 51
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pp. 450-451
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