Abstract
1. Welcome to Epistemicism In Blindspots (1988) Roy Sorensen gave us the epistemic view of vagueness. The view was taken up and articulated in rigorous fashion by Tim Williamson in Vagueness (1994). Thirteen years after Blindspots Sorensen has come back to articulate the theory in his own way in Vagueness and Contradiction (2001). * The articulated theory is at once extremely conservative, taking classical logic simply as a given, and extremely radical, arguing that vagueness involves us in rationally believing infinitely many a priori (but false) contradictions. This bold line is therefore likely to draw flak from radicals and conservatives alike. The core of the epistemicist position, at least as both Sorensen and Williamson subscribe to it, is as follows:
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