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Ideas for Hans Reichenbach, B Hale / C Wright and Roy Sorensen

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance

9116	Vague words have hidden boundaries [Sorensen]
	Full Idea: Vague words have hidden boundaries. The subtraction of a single grain of sand might turn a heap into a non-heap.
	From: Roy Sorensen (Vagueness and Contradiction [2001], Intro)
	A reaction: The first sentence could be the slogan for the epistemic view of vagueness. The opposite view is Sainsbury's - that vague words are those which do not have any boundaries. Sorensen admits his view is highly counterintuitive. I think I prefer Sainsbury.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 11. Ontological Commitment / a. Ontological commitment

12226	The identity of Pegasus with Pegasus may be true, despite the non-existence [Hale/Wright]
	Full Idea: Identity is sometimes read so that 'Pegasus is Pegasus' expresses a truth, the non-existence of any winged horse notwithstanding.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (The Metaontology of Abstraction [2009], §5)
	A reaction: This would give you ontological commitment to truth, without commitment to existence. It undercuts the use of identity statements as the basis of existence claims, which was Frege's strategy.