Mereological vagueness and existential vagueness

Synthese

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 53-79

  Donnelly, Maureen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition; Mereology; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 63949086745     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-008-9312-z     Document Type: Article

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