Single Idea 23541

[catalogued under 7. Existence / D. Theories of Reality / 10. Vagueness / f. Supervaluation for vagueness]

Full Idea

Under supervaluation there should always be someone who is the last bald man in the sequence, but there is always an acceptable way to make some other man the last bald man.

Gist of Idea

Supervaluation can give no answer to 'who is the last bald man'

Source

Kit Fine (Vagueness: a global approach [2020], 1)

Book Reference

Fine,Kit: 'Vagueness: a global approach' [OUP 2020], p.13


A Reaction

Fine seems to take this as a conclusive refutation of the supervaluation approach. Fine says (p.41) that supervaluation says there is a precisification for every instance.