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    Richmond H. Thomason

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The most important part of this paper (the technical details of the semantical theory) emerged during the discussion session of a talk that I gave at UCLA in the spring of 1979, and I have to thank the UCLA Philosophy Department for superlatively constructive questioning.

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Thomason, R.H. Identity and vagueness. Philos Stud 42, 329–332 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00714365

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