Vague Identity Yet Again

Analysis 50 (3):157-162 (1990)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

The paper defends Gareth Evans's argument against vague identity. It appeals to a principle I name the principle of the diversity of the definitely dissimilar to defend the thesis that vague identity statements owe their indeterminacy to vagueness in language

Categories

Keywords

Reprint years

DOI

10.1093/analys/50.3.157

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 91,349

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

My notes

Similar books and articles

Vague Objects Without Ontically Indeterminate Identity.Elisa Paganini - 2011 - Erkenntnis 74 (3):351-362.
Vagueness and Identity.Loretta Torrago - 1999 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 2:161-170.
Why sense cannot be made of vague identity.Nicholas J. J. Smith - 2008 - Noûs 42 (1):1–16.
How to count clouds.Dominic Hyde - unknown
Multiple actualities and ontically vague identity.Robert Williams - 2008 - Philosophical Quarterly 58 (230):134-154.
E. J. Lowe on Vague Identity and Quantum Indeterminacy.Harold W. Noonan - 1995 - Analysis 55 (1):14-19.
Vague parts and vague identity.Elizabeth Barnes & J. R. G. Williams - 2009 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 90 (2):176-187.
Vague identity and vague objects.Brian Garrett - 1991 - Noûs 25 (3):341-351.
Reply to Noonan on vague identity.E. J. Lowe - 1997 - Analysis 57 (1):88–91.
A Plea for Things That Are Not Quite All There: Or, Is There a Problem about Vague Composition and Vague Existence?Nicholas J. J. Smith - 2005 - Journal of Philosophy 102 (8):381-421.
Persistence, Ontic Vagueness and Identity: Towards a Substantialist Four–dimensionalism. [REVIEW]Enrique Romerales - 2008 - Metaphysica 9 (1):33-55.
Why the vague need not be higher-order vague.Michael Tye - 1994 - Mind 103 (409):43-45.
Vagueness, Truth and Varzi.Gerald Hull - manuscript
Contingent Identity and Vague Identity.Rosanna Keefe - 1995 - Analysis 55 (3):183 - 190.

Analytics

Added to PP
2011-05-29

Downloads
126 (#140,725)

6 months
23 (#115,843)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Harold Noonan
Nottingham University

Citations of this work

Multiple actualities and ontically vague identity.Robert Williams - 2008 - Philosophical Quarterly 58 (230):134-154.
Identity over time.Andre Gallois - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
On Vague Objects, Fuzzy Logic and Fractal Boundaries.B. Jack Copeland - 1995 - Southern Journal of Philosophy 33 (S1):83-96.
Qualia and vagueness.Anthony Everett - 1996 - Synthese 106 (2):205-226.

View all 9 citations / Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references