@article{Smith2008-SMIWSC,abstract = {In this paper I present a new argument against vague identity --- one that is more fundamental than existing arguments --- and I also try to explain why we find the idea of vague identity puzzling, in a way that will dispel the puzzlement. In brief, my argument is this: to make clear sense of something, one must at least model it set-theoretically; but due to the special place of identity in set-theoretic models, any vague relation that one does model set-theoretically will not be identity, for real identity will already be there, built into the background of the model, and perfectly precise.},journal = {No\^us},volume = {42},year = {2008},pages = {1--16},author = {Nicholas J. J. Smith},number = {1},title = {Why Sense Cannot Be Made of Vague Identity}}@