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Moral Vagueness Is Ontic Vagueness
Ethics 126 (2):257-282 (2016)
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The aim of this essay is to argue that, if a robust form of moral realism is true, then moral vagueness is ontic vagueness. The argument is by elimination: I show that neither semantic nor epistemic approaches to moral vagueness are satisfactoryAuthor's Profile
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