Vagueness, Persistence and Indeterminate Identity

Erkenntnis 64 (2):223-230 (2006)
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Abstract

I argue that for those who follow Evans in finding indeterminacy of de re identity statements problematic, ontic vagueness within a three-dimensionalist metaphysics will raise some problems that are not faced by the four-dimensionalist. For the types of strategies used to avoid de re indeterminacy within the context of ontic vagueness at-at-time, that is, spatial vagueness, are problematic within a three-dimensionalist framework when put to use within the context of ontic vagueness across-time, that is temporal vagueness.

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Endurantism and Perdurantism.Nikk Effingham - 2012 - In Robert Barnard Neil Manson (ed.), Continuum Companion to Metaphysics. pp. 170.
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Can there be vague objects?Gareth Evans - 1978 - Analysis 38 (4):208.
Vagueness and Existence.Katherine Hawley - 2002 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 102 (1):125-140.
Are there vague objects?H. W. Noonan - 2004 - Analysis 64 (2):131-134.
Are there vague objects?Harold W. Noonan - 2004 - Analysis 64 (2):131-134.

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