I consider paradoxical spectrum arguments involving transitive relations like ‘better than’. argue that, despite being formally different from sorites arguments, at least some arise vagueness, and that vagueness might often be the most natural diagnosis.

Reviewed by: Vagueness: A Global Approach by Kit Fine Chad Carmichael FINE, Kit. Approach. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. xx + 100 pp. Cloth, $31.95 In this book, argues that vagueness is a matter of global rather than local indeterminacy. His guiding analogy involves uneven stepping stones: The stones are collectively uneven, even though no particular stone correctly deemed to be une...

The role of higher-order vagueness in creating apparent difficulties with attempts to formulate a sentence capable of characterizing the vagueness of a predicate, that is, its role in appearing to undermine a characteristic-sentence approach to defining vagueness, has led some to question the very existence of such a phenomenon. Hyde () sought to put the existence of higher-order vagueness ...