Vague existence can seem like the worst kind of vagueness in the world, or seem to be an entirely unintelligible notion. This bad reputation is based upon the rumour that if there is vague existence then there are non-existent objects. But the rumour is false: the modest brand of vague existence entailed by certain metaphysical theories of composition does not deserve its bad reputation
One could define vagueness as the existence of borderline cases and char-acterise the philosophical ...
The nature of vagueness is investigated via a preliminary definition and a discussion of the classic...
In this article I shall consider two seemingly contradictory claims: first, the claim that everybody...
Vague existence can seem like the worst kind of vagueness in the world, or seem to be an entirely un...
Ted Sider has famously argued that existence, in the unrestricted sense of ontology, cannot be vague...
This volume analyzes and studies how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the conte...
According to one account, vagueness is “metaphysical. ” The friend of metaphysical vagueness believe...
The claim that all vagueness must be a feature of language or thought is the current orthodoxy. This...
Ordinary objects are vague, because either (i) composition is restricted, or (ii) there really are n...
In this dissertation, I argue that vagueness is a metaphysical phenomenon---that properties and obje...
this paper I present and defend a definition of vagueness, and draw out some consequences of accepti...
There are three main traditional accounts of vagueness : one takes it as a genuinely metaphysical ph...
One could define vagueness as the existence of borderline cases and char-acterise the philosophical ...
The nature of vagueness is investigated via a preliminary definition and a discussion of the classic...
In this article I shall consider two seemingly contradictory claims: first, the claim that everybody...
Vague existence can seem like the worst kind of vagueness in the world, or seem to be an entirely un...
Ted Sider has famously argued that existence, in the unrestricted sense of ontology, cannot be vague...
This volume analyzes and studies how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the conte...
According to one account, vagueness is “metaphysical. ” The friend of metaphysical vagueness believe...
The claim that all vagueness must be a feature of language or thought is the current orthodoxy. This...
Ordinary objects are vague, because either (i) composition is restricted, or (ii) there really are n...
In this dissertation, I argue that vagueness is a metaphysical phenomenon---that properties and obje...
this paper I present and defend a definition of vagueness, and draw out some consequences of accepti...
There are three main traditional accounts of vagueness : one takes it as a genuinely metaphysical ph...
One could define vagueness as the existence of borderline cases and char-acterise the philosophical ...
The nature of vagueness is investigated via a preliminary definition and a discussion of the classic...
In this article I shall consider two seemingly contradictory claims: first, the claim that everybody...
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