Higher-order Vagueness and Borderline Nestings – a Persistent Confusion
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This paper shows that authors who have recently argued that higher-order vagueness is incoherent, paradoxical, illusory or non-existent invariably confound elements of higher-order vagueness (of the kind relevant to the Sorites paradox) with elements of a different paradigm of borderline borderline cases; and that, once the elements of that other paradigm are removed from the description of higher-order vagueness, the basis for the claims of paradoxicality, etc., disappears.
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