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• @article{Smith2005-SMIAPF,abstract = {Orthodoxy has it that mereological composition can never be a vague matter, for if it were, then existence would sometimes be a vague matter too, and that's impossible. I accept that vague composition implies vague existence, but deny that either is impossible. In this paper I develop degree-theoretic versions of quantified modal logic and of mereology, and combine them in a framework that allows us to make clear sense of vague composition and vague existence, and the relationships between them},year = {2005},number = {8},author = {Nicholas Smith},title = {A Plea for Things That Are Not Quite All There: Or, Is There a Problem About Vague Composition and Vague Existence?},pages = {381--421},volume = {102},journal = {Journal of Philosophy}}@

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• A Plea for Things That Are Not Quite All There: Or, Is There a Problem About Vague Composition and Vague Existence?

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• 2005

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