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'Parmenides', 'Vagueness, Truth and Logic' and 'On Divination ('De divinatione')'
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / c. Becoming
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The one was and is and will be and was becoming and is becoming and will become [Plato]
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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / f. Primary being
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Plato's Parmenides has a three-part theory, of Primal One, a One-Many, and a One-and-Many [Plato, by Plotinus]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 3. Reality
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Absolute ideas, such as the Good and the Beautiful, cannot be known by us [Plato]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic
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Vagueness is semantic, a deficiency of meaning [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / e. Higher-order vagueness
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A thing might be vaguely vague, giving us higher-order vagueness [Fine,K]
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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness
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A vague sentence is only true for all ways of making it completely precise [Fine,K]
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Logical connectives cease to be truth-functional if vagueness is treated with three values [Fine,K]
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Meaning is both actual (determining instances) and potential (possibility of greater precision) [Fine,K]
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With the super-truth approach, the classical connectives continue to work [Fine,K]
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Borderline cases must be under our control, as capable of greater precision [Fine,K]
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