Meta Ontology

In recent literature on vagueness, writers have noted that more `plentiful' theories of properties -- those that postulate genuine properties corresponding to the classically vague predicates like `bald' and `heap' -- appear straightforwardly committed to ontic vagueness. In this paper, however, I will argue that worries of ontic vagueness are not specific to `plentiful' accounts of properties. The classically `sparse' theories of properties -- Universals and tropes -- will, I contend, be subject to similar difficulties