Arguments Against Metaphysical Indeterminacy and Vagueness

Philosophy Compass 5 (11):953-964 (2010)
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In this article, I survey some of the major arguments against metaphysical indeterminacy and vagueness and outline potential responses.

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A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person.Hud Hudson - 2001 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Theories of Vagueness.Rosanna Keefe - 2000 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
Can there be vague objects?Gareth Evans - 1978 - Analysis 38 (4):208.

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