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IV 245
Absolute/relative/vagueness/Unger/Lewis: e.g. (Peter Unger): you could say there is really nothing that is really smooth. Sure, the pavement is flat, but the desk is still smoother. Lewis pro: suppose that for no description of the relative vagueness of "smooth" and "smoother" it is true that something is smoother than something that is smooth. Score keeping/vagueness/Lewis: the correct answer is that he changed their score. The approximation rule allows Unger to create a context in which everything he says is true but that does not prove that something is wrong in our everyday contexts. Cf. >Absoluteness/Unger.

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