Vague, So Untrue

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Noûs 41 (2):133 - 156 (2007)
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According to an old and attractive view, vagueness must be eliminated before semantic notions — truth, implication, and so on — may be applied. This view was accepted by Frege, but is rarely defended nowadays.1 This..

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Theodore Sider
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