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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Pyrrhonian Arguments (frags)' and 'Can there be Vague Objects?'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

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Evans argues (falsely!) that a contradiction follows from treating objects as vague [Evans, by Lowe]

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Is it coherent that reality is vague, identities can be vague, and objects can have fuzzy boundaries? [Evans]

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Evans assumes there can be vague identity statements, and that his proof cannot be right [Evans, by Lewis]

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There clearly are vague identity statements, and Evans's argument has a false conclusion [Evans, by Lewis]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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If a=b is indeterminate, then a=/=b, and so there cannot be indeterminate identity [Evans, by Thomasson]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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There can't be vague identity; a and b must differ, since a, unlike b, is only vaguely the same as b [Evans, by PG]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 1. Nature of Ethics / h. Against ethics

6040	There is no universal goal to human life [Aenesidemus, by Photius]