caa a22 4500 475830296 CHVBK 20180406123839.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20001001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005540431474 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005540431474 Sorensen Roy Department of Philosophy, New York University Washington Square, 503 Main Building, 10003-6688, New York, N.Y. aut A Vague Demonstration [Elektronische Daten] [Roy Sorensen] Poindexter points and asserts 'sThat is Clinton'. But it is vague as to whether he pointed at Clinton or pointed at the more salient man, Gore. Since the vagueness only occurs at the level of reference fixing, the content of the identity proposition is precise. Indeed, it is either a necessary truth or a necessary falsehood. Since Poindexter's utterance has a hidden truth value by virtue of vagueness, it increases the plausibility of epistemicism. Epistemicism says that vague statements have hidden truth values. If a precise statement can have a hidden truth value conferred indirectly by vaguesness, then a vague statement can have a hidden truth value directly by its own vagueness. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Linguistics and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 23/5(2000-10-01), 507-522 0165-0157 23:5<507 2000 23 10988 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005540431474 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005540431474 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Sorensen Roy Department of Philosophy, New York University Washington Square, 503 Main Building, 10003-6688, New York, N.Y aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Linguistics and Philosophy Kluwer Academic Publishers 23/5(2000-10-01), 507-522 0165-0157 23:5<507 2000 23 10988 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer