How speckled is the hen?

Analysis 69 (3):499-502 (2009)
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Abstract

We can see a number of entities without seeing a determinate number of entities. For example, when we see the speckled hen, we do not see it as having a determinate number of speckles, although we do see it as having a lot of speckles. How is this possible? I suggest a contextualist answer that differs both from Michael Tye's and from Fred Dretske's

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Bence Nanay
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