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Vagueness and Desire
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According to the view that vagueness is merely a kind of ignorance, there is no principled reason to think that one cannot care intrinsically about vague matters. In this chapter, it is argued that on such a view attitudes towards the vague can enter into practical deliberation in a particularly striking way: two people with the same desires and actions available to them, and who agree about the precise, may nonetheless behave differently due to their opinions about the vague. The chapter then distinguishes itself from the ‘mere ignorance’ view and defends a principle of Indifference, stating that one must be indifferent (in the sense of not preferring one to the other) between any two propositions that settle all precise matters in the same way.
Title: Vagueness and Desire
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According to the view that vagueness is merely a kind of ignorance, there is no principled reason to think that one cannot care intrinsically about vague matters.
In this chapter, it is argued that on such a view attitudes towards the vague can enter into practical deliberation in a particularly striking way: two people with the same desires and actions available to them, and who agree about the precise, may nonetheless behave differently due to their opinions about the vague.
The chapter then distinguishes itself from the ‘mere ignorance’ view and defends a principle of Indifference, stating that one must be indifferent (in the sense of not preferring one to the other) between any two propositions that settle all precise matters in the same way.
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