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Essay

1997

Vagueness

Roy Sorensen

Surveys the competing accounts of why predicates like 'bald' or 'tall' have no sharp cutoff, from the view that vagueness is a gap in our knowledge to the view that reality itself has fuzzy boundaries.

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