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[from 'Interview with Baggini and Stangroom' by Timothy Williamson, in 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / c. Vagueness as ignorance ]

Full Idea

If one is very close to a conceptual boundary, then one's judgement will be too unreliable to constitute knowledge, and therefore one will be ignorant.

Gist of Idea

Close to conceptual boundaries judgement is too unreliable to give knowledge

Source

Timothy Williamson (Interview with Baggini and Stangroom [2001], p.156)

Book Reference

Baggini,J/Stangroom,J: 'New British Philosophy' [Routledge 2002], p.156


A Reaction

This is the epistemological rather than ontological interpretation of vagueness. It sounds very persuasive, but I am reluctant to accept that reality is full of very precise boundaries which we cannot quite discriminate.