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On the Semantic Indecision of Vague Singular Terms
Sorites 19:88-91 (2007)
Abstract
According to a popular, plausible, but also controversial view about the nature of vagueness, vagueness is a matter of semantic indecision. I show that, even if «I» is vague and the view of vagueness as semantic indecision is correct, I could be a material composite object all the sameAuthor's Profile
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