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“... out of it. You don’t realise: vagueness is huge.’ My friend’s judgment is confirmed by Scott Soames’s 900-page history of analytic philosophy. In an epilogue titled ‘The Era of Specialisation’, Soames cites ‘the investigation of vague predicates’ as an area of philosophical inquiry that has ...”

“... a characteristic military balls-up.’ Early in April a new wireless operator, Sergeant Kenneth Scott, was parachuted in to join Frank, while Scott’s code-book was dropped to a wholly different unit ‘somewhere in Thrace’ – and this at a time when the unit’s headquarters were being transferred from Cairo to Bari ...”

“... a glib point really. It’s foul, such a waste. Uncomfortable, I thought, considering what Soames and I can spend between us on a single meal at Wiltons. There was nothing he could do for that man, or anyone like him, so what was the point of being a minister? Clark’s scintillating reply was usually ‘saying brush’ (according to the Clark ...”