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| 16458 | Semantic vagueness involves alternative and equal precisifications of the language |
| Full Idea: If vagueness is semantic indeterminacy, then wherever we have vague statements, we have several alternative precisifications of the vague language involved, all with equal claims of being 'intended'. | |||
| From: David Lewis (Vague Identity: Evans misunderstood [1988], p.318) |