II—Modelling Higher-Order Vagueness: Columns, Borderlines and Boundaries

Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 89 (1):89-108 (2015)
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According to columnar higher-order vagueness, all orders of vagueness coincide: any borderline case is a borderline borderline case, and a third-order borderline case, etc. Bobzien has worked out many details of such a theory and models it with a modal logic closely related to S4. I take up a range of questions about the framework and argue that it is not suitable for modelling the structure of vagueness and higher-order vagueness.

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