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THE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM OF VAGUENESS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2002

Dorothy Edgington
Dorothy Edgington
Affiliation:
University College, Oxford
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Abstract

Think of the color spectrum, spread out before you. You can identify the different colors with ease. But if you are asked to indicate the point at which one color ends and the next begins, you are at a loss. “There is no such point,” is a natural thought: One color just shades gradually into the next.

Type
Research Article
Information
Legal Theory , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 371 - 378
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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