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Ideas for 'Individuals without Sortals', 'The Problem of Natural Laws' and 'Vagueness and Contradiction'

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7. Existence / B. Change in Existence / 4. Events / a. Nature of events

17520	Events do not have natural boundaries, and we have to set them [Ayers]
	Full Idea: In order to know which event has been ostensively identified by a speaker, the auditor must know the limits intended by the speaker. ...Events do not have natural boundaries.
	From: M.R. Ayers (Individuals without Sortals [1974], 'Concl')
	A reaction: He distinguishes events thus from natural objects, where the world, to a large extent, offers us the boundaries. Nice point.

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.