Vagueness and Indeterminacy in Metaethics

In Tristram Colin McPherson & David Plunkett (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics. New York: Routledge. pp. 185-193 (2017)
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This chapter discusses vagueness in ethics.

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