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(2017) Synthese 194 (10).

Verities, the sorites, and Theseus' ship

Igor Douven

pp. 3867-3878

Edgington has proposed a degree-theoretic account of vagueness that yields a highly elegant solution to the sorites paradox. This paper applies her account to the paradox of Theseus’ ship, which is generally classified among the paradoxes of material constitution and not as a sorites paradox.

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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-015-0724-2

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Douven, I. (2017). Verities, the sorites, and Theseus' ship. Synthese 194 (10), pp. 3867-3878.