Schiffer on vagueness

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87 (1):12–23 (2006)
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Abstract

I go through, and criticize, Stephen Schiffer's account of vagueness and the sorites paradox. I discuss his notion of a happy-face solution to a paradox, his appeal to vagueness-related partial belief, his claim that indeterminacy is a psychological notion, and his view that the sorites premise and the inference rule of modus ponens are indeterminate.

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Matti Eklund
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The things we mean.Stephen R. Schiffer - 2003 - New York: Oxford University Press.
Inconsistent Languages.Matti Eklund - 2002 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64 (2):251-275.
What Vagueness Consists In.Matti Eklund - 2005 - Philosophical Studies 125 (1):27-60.
Two Issues of Vagueness.Stephen Schiffer - 1998 - The Monist 81 (2):193--214.

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