Can vagueness cut out at any order?
Could a sentence be, say, 3rd order vague, but 4th order precise? In Williamson 1999 we find an argument that seems to show that this is impossible: every sentence is either 1st order precise, 2nd order precise, or infinitely vague. The argument for this claim is unpersuasive, however, and this pape...
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| description | Could a sentence be, say, 3rd order vague, but 4th order precise? In Williamson 1999 we find an argument that seems to show that this is impossible: every sentence is either 1st order precise, 2nd order precise, or infinitely vague. The argument for this claim is unpersuasive, however, and this paper explains why. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:f5877244-66df-4921-a032-5031adbec7ad2022-03-27T12:27:53ZCan vagueness cut out at any order?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:f5877244-66df-4921-a032-5031adbec7adEnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Mahtani, ACould a sentence be, say, 3rd order vague, but 4th order precise? In Williamson 1999 we find an argument that seems to show that this is impossible: every sentence is either 1st order precise, 2nd order precise, or infinitely vague. The argument for this claim is unpersuasive, however, and this paper explains why. |
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| title_short | Can vagueness cut out at any order? |
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