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THE VAGUENESS ARGUMENT FOR MEREOLOGICAL UNIVERSALISM*
Author(s) -
SMITH DONALD
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2006.00266.x
Subject(s) - vagueness , premise , argument (complex analysis) , mereology , universalism , epistemology , philosophy , political science , law , linguistics , biochemistry , chemistry , politics , fuzzy logic
In this paper, I critically discuss one of the more influential arguments for mereological universalism, what I will call ‘the Vagueness Argument’. I argue that a premise of the Vagueness Argument is not well supported and that there are at least two good reasons for thinking that the premise in question is false.