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Vagueness and ‘vague’: A reply to Varzi

Gerald Hull

Mind 114 (455):689-693 (2005)

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‘Vague’ at Higher Orders.Ivan Hu - 2017 - Mind 126 (504):1189-1216.details Sorensen has argued that one can exploit the vagueness of an ordinary predicate like ‘small’ to induce a sort of vagueness in ‘vague’, by constructing a series of predicates of the form ‘n-small’, where x is n- small if and only if x is small or x n. The resulting ‘Sorensen’ed’ predicates present a Sorites case for ‘vague’ ; hence the vagueness of ‘vague’. Hyde argues that this demonstrates that all vague predicates are higher-order vague. Others doubt whether Sorensen’s series (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 2 citations
The vagueness of ‘vague’: Rejoinder to Hull.Achille C. Varzi - 2005 - Mind 114 (455):695-702.details A rejoinder to G. Hull’s reply to my Mind 2003. Hull argues that Sorensen’s purported proof that ‘vague’ is vague--which I defended against certain familiar objections--fails. He offers three reasons: (i) the vagueness exhibited by Sorensen’s sorites is just the vagueness of ‘small’; (ii) the general assumption underlying the proof, to the effect that predicates which possess borderline cases are vague, is mistaken; (iii) the conclusion of the proof is unacceptable, for it is possible to create Sorensen-type sorites even for (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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