Indeterminacy, Degree of Belief, and Excluded Middle
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1. Referential indeterminacy (for instance, indeterminacy as to what a singular term stands for or what a general term has as its extension) is a widespread phenomenon. Ordinary vagueness is a special case of indeterminacy: for instance, it is indeterminate whether the word ‘rich’ has in its extension certain moderately rich people, and it is indeterminate precisely which atoms are parts of the referent of ‘Clinton’s body’ at a certain time. But there are more interesting examples as well.
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