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DOI: 10.1007/bf00869569
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“…Composition never takes place, and the only existing things are “simples,” that is, atomic objects that have no proper parts. This position is known as nihilism (Unger ; Wheeler ). For the nihilist, there are, or there exist, no tables, chairs, or mountains.…”
Section: Representing a Debate As Merely Verbal: The Case Of Metaomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Composition never takes place, and the only existing things are “simples,” that is, atomic objects that have no proper parts. This position is known as nihilism (Unger ; Wheeler ). For the nihilist, there are, or there exist, no tables, chairs, or mountains.…”
Section: Representing a Debate As Merely Verbal: The Case Of Metaomentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It is possible to interpret R and 'not R' in such a way that there exists no precisification: choose their interpretations so that the definite regions are recursively inseparable. 9 In such cases it is truly in principle impossible for a finite agent to precisify the concept. Vagueness of this depth I call depth-3-vagueness.…”
Section: Modeling Deeper Vaguenessmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although some have sought to save us from paradox by denying the base case. Unger[8] and Wheeler[9] deny that there are non-heaps by denying that there is a concept heapness at all.2 A program semidecides a set if it halts and says YES on all and only those inputs in the set; but when input with something not in the set, the program might not halt at all.2nd Irish Workshop in Formal Methods, 1998…”
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“…So, not only a r e there no bald men b u t also there could be no bald men! The claim that vague predicates are logically inconsistent is one which Peter Unger (1979b) and Samuel Wheeler (1979) have endorsed.8 According to Unger, vague predicates have d imensions of difference and direction associated with them, which can be shown to generate contradictions. Consider some vague general term l!…”
Section: Paradoxes and Problemsmentioning
confidence: 99%