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Ideas for 'Can there be Vague Objects?', 'Intro to Contemporary Epistemology' and 'The Nature of Things'

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7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 2. Realism

2781	Realism says that most perceived objects exist, and have some of their perceived properties [Dancy,J]

7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / b. Vagueness of reality

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Evans argues (falsely!) that a contradiction follows from treating objects as vague [Evans, by Lowe]

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Is it coherent that reality is vague, identities can be vague, and objects can have fuzzy boundaries? [Evans]

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Evans assumes there can be vague identity statements, and that his proof cannot be right [Evans, by Lewis]

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There clearly are vague identity statements, and Evans's argument has a false conclusion [Evans, by Lewis]

7. Existence / E. Categories / 5. Category Anti-Realism

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Extreme nominalists say all classification is arbitrary convention [Quinton]