Alexander Pruss's Blog

Kripke famously argued that unicorns cannot exist. For “unicorn” would have to refer to a natural kind. But there are multiple non-actual na...

The typical examples of vagueness in the literature are ones where it is vague whether a subject has a property (e.g., vagueness) or whether...

On a supervaluationist view of vagueness, a sentence such as “Bob is bald” corresponds to a large number of perfectly precise propositions, ...

If p  is a precification of q  and p  is true, then p  grounds q . If q  is vaguely true, then q  has a true precification. So, every pr...

Kripke argued that it is not possible for there to be unicorns. For "unicorn" is a natural kind term. But there are man...