- Abstract:
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Stewart Shapiro recently argued that there is no higher-order vagueness. More specifically, his thesis is: (ST) 'So-called second-order vagueness in 'F' is nothing but first-order vagueness in the phrase 'competent speaker of English' or 'competent user of "F"'. Shapiro bases (ST) on a description of the phenomenon of higher-order vagueness and two accounts of 'borderline case' and provides several arguments in its support. We present the phenomenon (as Shapiro describes it) and the accounts;...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Journal:
- Synthese
- Volume:
- 180
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 317-335
- Publication date:
- 2011-06-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1573-0964
- ISSN:
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0039-7857
- Pubs id:
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pubs:352130
- UUID:
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uuid:1b92ac19-9a79-4fe0-a137-ff4f055d5de3
- Source identifiers:
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352130
- Local pid:
- pubs:352130
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
Journal article
In defense of true higher-order vagueness
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