This magic moment: Horwich on the boundaries of vague terms
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Consider the following argument: (1) Bertrand Russell was old at age 3×1018 nanoseconds (that’s about 95 years) (2) He wasn’t old at age 0 nanoseconds (3) So there is a number N such that he was old at N nanoseconds and not old at k nanoseconds for any k | |||||||||
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