ABSTRACT

Stephen Read and Crispin Wright attribute to me a proposal for dealing with sorites paradoxes that I have never made; one which they elegantly demolish (cf. my ‘Vagueness and Alternative Logic’, Realism and Reason, Cambridge 1983, pp. 285–6, and Stephen Read & Crispin Wright, ‘Hairier than Putnam Thought’, Analysis 45.1, January 1985, pp. 56–8). I find the proposal interesting and the demolition job instructive, but the proposal isn’t mine.