Can vagueness cut out at any order?
Mahtani, Anna
(2008)
Can vagueness cut out at any order?
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 86 (3).
pp. 499-508.
ISSN 0004-8402
Could a sentence be, say, 3rd order vague, but 4th order precise? In Williamson 19993. Williamson, T. 1999. On the Structure of Higher-Order Vagueness. Mind, 108: 127–43. [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®] View all references 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.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Departments | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048400802001954 |
| Date Deposited | 02 Oct 2013 10:55 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/50722 |
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1581-4325