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Differences in Individuation and Vagueness

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From an epistemological view, classifying a statement as ‘vague’O) means to judge the statement in question to be a mixture from partial knowledge and partial ignorance. Accordingly it seems desirable to describe the boundary between knowledge and ignorance hidden in the vague statement.

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Grafe, W. (1981). Differences in Individuation and Vagueness. In: Hartkämper, A., Schmidt, HJ. (eds) Structure and Approximation in Physical Theories. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4109-3_9

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