Some Comments on Evans’s Proof

Garrett, Brian

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Some Comments on Evans’s Proof

Date

2014

Authors

Garrett, Brian

Abstract

In this chapter, I examine in some detail Gareth Evans’s famous one-page article ‘Can there be vague objects?’. I argue that Evans’s proof of the impossibility of vague identity (presented in his second paragraph) is flawed but suggest an alternative way in which Evans’s desired conclusion might be secured. I also point out some oddities in Evans’s final paragraph.