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Verities, the sorites, and Theseus’ ship. (English) Zbl 1382.03012

Summary: 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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03A05 Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations
03B48 Probability and inductive logic
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