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Ideas for 'Axiomatic Theories of Truth (2005 ver)', 'The Metaphysics of Modality' and 'A Conversation: what is it? What is it for?'

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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / i. Deflating being

21847	Before Being there is politics [Deleuze]
	Full Idea: Before Being there is politics.
	From: Gilles Deleuze (A Conversation: what is it? What is it for? [1977], I)
	A reaction: [He says he is quoting Felix Guattari] I can only think that this is a very Marxist view - that politics permeates and dictates everything. This seems to tell me that I am forever controlled by something so deep and vast that I can never understand it.

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / d. Vagueness as linguistic

12023	Vagueness problems arise from applying sharp semantics to vague languages [Forbes,G]
	Full Idea: It is very plausible that the sorites paradoxes arose from the application of a semantic apparatus appropriate only for sharp predicates to languages containing vague predicates (rather than from deficiency of meaning, or from incoherence).
	From: Graeme Forbes (The Metaphysics of Modality [1985], 7.3)
	A reaction: Sounds wrong. Of course, logic has been designed for sharp predicates, and natural languages are awash with vagueness. But the problems of vagueness bothered lawyers long before logicians like Russell began to worry about it.