Higher-Order Vagueness and Borderline Nestings: A Persistent Confusion

Analytic Philosophy 54 (1):1-43 (2013)
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ABSTRACT: This paper argues that the so-called paradoxes of higher-order vagueness are the result of a confusion between higher-order vagueness and the distribution of the objects of a Sorites series into extensionally non-overlapping non-empty classes.

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Vagueness.Timothy Williamson - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 46 (4):589-601.
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Vagueness and contradiction.Roy A. Sorensen - 2001 - New York: Oxford University Press.

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