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Hugh Mellor (1998), who considers this line, rejects it for the following reason.
He finds the word vague, and consequently rejects it for serious use, saying that the word is "useful and unobjectionable in the vernacular where we acquiesce in vagueness, but unsuited to technical use because of lacking a precise boundary" (Quine, 1984, 295).
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