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In a paper called 'Definiteness and Knowability', Tim Williamson addresses the question
whether one must accept that vagueness is an epistemic phenomenon if one
adopts classical logic and a disquotational principle for truth. Some have suggested
that one must not, hence that classical logic and the disquotational principle may
be preserved without endorsing epistemicism. Williamson’s paper, however, finds
‘no plausible way of substantiating that possibility’. Its moral is that ‘either classical
logic fails, or the disquotational principle does, or vagueness is an epistemic
phenomenon’. The moral of this paper, on the contrary, is that there is a plausible
way of substantiating that possibility. The option it contemplates looks like a
view that Williamson dismisses at the beginning of his paper, and that others regard
as unworthy of serious consideration.
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