Vague parts and vague identity

E Barnes, JRG Williams - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… So now, when we derive the vague identity through the Weathersonian argument, we will
have proved that vague parts lead to de re vague identity: and we may then deploy the Evans-…

Vague identity and vague objects

B Garrett - Noûs, 1991 - JSTOR
vague identity, the singular terms of which are both precise. … show that no identity statement
can be vague and contain only … is an integral part of his argument against vague objects. This …

Vague objects and vague identity

K Akiba, A Abasnezhad - New essays on ontic vagueness, 2014 - Springer
vague material object with fuzzy boundaries, its identity ought to be vague; in particular, if
we compare a putative vague … for a ’s vague parts, it should be vague whether a is identical …

Vague identity

SA Rasmussen - Mind, 1986 - JSTOR
… argument fails if the references of the singular terms are fixed, in part, by vague predicates.
(Thomason's example is the interesting one of designators of the form 'this P', where 'P' is a …

Vague identity

R Stalnaker - Philosophical Analysis: A Defense by Example, 1988 - Springer
… Past times are parts of reality on a par with our own time, but other possible 'worlds' are just
… represents -- is not the identity relation, and it, unlike identity, may be vague even if it is clear …

Why sense cannot be made of vague identity

NJJ Smith - Noûs, 2008 - JSTOR
… being vague, then that relation cannot be identity. … to is part 'Cloud L', and point to the right
side of the cloud/the right cloud and call the cloud of which the bit we are pointing to is part '…

Vague identity yet again

HW Noonan - Analysis, 1990 - JSTOR
part about S5 and over-brevity in his explanation of his determinacy operator 'A '), Evans's
attack on the notion of indefinite identity is … to the defender of indefinite identity, and that a most …

Multiple actualities and ontically vague identity

JRG Williams - The Philosophical Quarterly, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… cases of ontically vague identity, I develop a framework for describing ontic vagueness in
general in terms … What of vague location, vague part‐hood, vague constitution? Perhaps a non‐…

Vague objects and indefinite identity

JA Burgess - Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for …, 1990 - JSTOR
vague and that their vagueness is no barrier to our using those expressions intelligibly,' it also
appears to be widely believed that vagueness … view the vagueness as residing in the part-…

Vagueness and identity

J Odrowąż-Sypniewska - 2001 - research-repository.st-andrews.ac …
part investigates the various problems concerning identity and individuation of quantum
particles, whereas the second part … to investigate how vague objects and vague identity fare after …