Superposition captures the uncertainty and indeterminacy in human reasoning that someone can be in a state where both agreement and disagreement simultaneously have potential.
(Peirce would have embraced quantum indeterminacy).
There are several potential indeterminacy problems.
Still, a friend of de re indeterminacy may exploit the same idea by speaking instead of precisifications of the underlying reality what Sainsbury (1989) calls "approximants", Cohn and Gotts (1996) "crispings", and T. Parsons (2000) "resolutions" of vague objects.
Thus, full (universalizable) self-ownership can include no enforcement rights (but a full immunity to loss), or full enforcement rights (but no immunity to loss for rights violations), or anything in between (on the issue of indeterminacy, see Fried [2004, 2005] and Vallentyne, Steiner, and Otsuka [2005]).
That discovery would allow us to resolve a radical indeterminacy which still persists the reader will remember that even in the case of Achilles's dichotomy supertask we were quite unable to prove that it would conclude with Achilles in point B (x = 1).
(If one thinks in terms of there being a third truth-value, indeterminacy, say, in addition to truth and falsity, the position will be that, when p and q are both indeterminate, sometimes "p or q" is true, and sometimes it is indeterminate).. Similarly "p and q" will be false in the one case and indeterminate in the other.
Now, it is clear that a lot here depends on how exactly one understands the relevant notion of indeterminacy.
This objection is related to a "normalization" objection which holds that public reason liberalism avoids indeterminacy only by building implausible theoretical assumptions into their models (D'Agostino 2003).
The indeterminacy may show only that Oscar's concept is vague and not that Oscar fails to possess any concept whatsoever.
After all, Adam if for a moment we disregard problems about knowledge and indeterminacy in counterfactual choices (Hurley 2001, 66 69; Hurley 2003, 164 168)—might correctly say that his case is identical to Beatrice's, and that he was merely unlucky not to be talented.
