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Against Vague Existence
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“First, we would simply like to point out that Ted Sider (2003) has supplied arguments that existence cannot be vague.”
From What Becomes of a Causal Set? (2017) · cites this paper as Sider (2003)
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Putnam, H. (1981) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511625398 · Cited by 5,688
New work for a theory of universals
Lewis, D. (1983) · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1080/00048408312341131 · Cited by 3,140
Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time
Sider, T. (2001) · doi:10.1093/019924443x.001.0001 · Cited by 1,907
Self-citationWittgenstein on Rules and Private Language.
Peacocke, C., & Kripke, S. A. (1984) · The Philosophical Review · doi:10.2307/2184586 · Cited by 1,425
Putnam, H. (1983) · Cambridge University Press eBooks · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511625275 · Cited by 1,199
Lewis, D. (1984) · Australasian Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.1080/00048408412340013 · Cited by 843
Meaning and the Moral Sciences.
Turner, S., & Putnam, H. (1979) · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · doi:10.2307/2065182 · Cited by 797
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition
Kripke, S. A. (1982) · Medical Entomology and Zoology · Cited by 753
Putnam, H. (1980) · Journal of Symbolic Logic · doi:10.2307/2273415 · Cited by 656
Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology
Sosa, E., & Lewis, D. (2000) · The Journal of Philosophy · doi:10.2307/2678398 · Cited by 460
Research works printed but not linked: 2
- Hawthorne, J. (forthcoming): Article on endurance and perdurance, in J. Hawthorne, T. Sider and D.W. Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell.
- Williamson, T. (1994): Vagueness, London and New York: Routledge.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sider, T.
- Affiliations
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sider, Theodore
- ORCID
- Sider, Theodore
- Venue
- Philosophical Studies
- Published
- 2003-05
- Volume
- 114
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 135-146
- ISSN
- 0031-8116 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-0883
- OpenAlex
- W161882535
- Cited by
- 107
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 32.85
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Philosophical Studies (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
- Keywords
- vagueness, existence, metaphysics of vagueness
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