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All the ideas for 'The iterative conception of Set', 'fragments/reports' and 'Can there be Vague Objects?'

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10 ideas

4. Formal Logic / F. Set Theory ST / 4. Axioms for Sets / h. Axiom of Replacement VII

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Do the Replacement Axioms exceed the iterative conception of sets? [Boolos, by Maddy]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

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Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

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]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]