Vague simples

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (4):394–397 (2003)
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Abstract

Gareth Evans has argued influentially against vague identities. David Lewis and Theodore Sider have argued against vague parthood. Much of the distaste among philosophers for metaphysical vagueness is sourced in these arguments. I argue that even if the considerations adduced by Evans, Lewis and Sider are conclusive, metaphysical boundary vagueness remains possible.

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On the Plurality of Worlds.David K. Lewis - 1986 - Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
Four Dimensionalism.Theodore Sider - 1997 - Philosophical Review 106 (2):197-231.
Can there be vague objects?Gareth Evans - 1978 - Analysis 38 (4):208.
Simples.Ned Markosian - 1998 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (2):213 – 228.

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