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Almost- Ontology: Why Epistemicism Cannot Help Us Avoid Unrestricted Composition or Diachronic Plenitude.

That any filled location of spacetime contains a persisting thing has been defended based on the 'argument from vagueness.' It is often assumed that since the epistemicist account of vagueness blocks the argument from vagueness it facilitates a conservative ontology without gerrymandered objects. It...

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Published in:Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Vol. 95; no. 1; pp. 130 - 140
Main Author: Steen, İrem Kurtsal
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Mar2014
Subjects:
Vagueness (Philosophy)
Argument
Ontology
Conservatism
Predicate (Logic)
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