Document Type
Article
Abstract
If space-time is not discrete then epistemicism implies infinitely indeterministic cut-offs. In this paper, I will explore what sharp cut-offs in a Sorites series are and what they imply, and I will demonstrate that to go in for sharp cut-offs one should go in for discrete space. One might hold epistemicism to be true even while suggesting that space is continuous rather than discrete: there is a cut-off, and it is infinitely indeterminate. This is a possible reply, but the trouble in it is that one of the strong desires in accepting epistemicism as the reply to the Sorites is how clean-cut it makes the distinction between predicates. If the clean-cut nature of the reply is no longer so clean-cut, then epistemicism loses its main appeal.
Publication Date
2025
Recommended Citation
Poortenga, Grace, "Continuous Space Theory and the viability of an epistemic response to the sorites" (2025). Bouwsma Paper Contest. 13.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/philosophy_bouwsma/13