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All the ideas for 'Can there be Vague Objects?', 'Contextualism Defended' and 'What Does It All Mean?'

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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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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If a=b is indeterminate, then a=/=b, and so there cannot be indeterminate identity [Evans, by Thomasson]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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There can't be vague identity; a and b must differ, since a, unlike b, is only vaguely the same as b [Evans, by PG]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / a. Contextualism

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Contextualism says sceptical arguments are true, relative to their strict context [Cohen,S]

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Knowledge is context-sensitive, because justification is [Cohen,S]

13. Knowledge Criteria / C. External Justification / 6. Contextual Justification / b. Invariantism

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There aren't invariant high standards for knowledge, because even those can be raised [Cohen,S]

19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 6. Meaning as Use

4001	The meaning of a word contains all its possible uses as well as its actual ones [Nagel]