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Item Epistemicism(2015-05) Hu, Ivan J.; Sainsbury, R. M. (Richard Mark); Kamp, Hans; Bonevac, Daniel A.; Koons, Robert C.; Dever, Joshua; Raffman, DianaI propose a new theory of vagueness centered around the epistemology and normativity of vagueness. The theory is a version of epistemicism—the view that vagueness is a fundamentally epistemic phenomenon—that improves upon existing epistemicist accounts by accommodating both the alleged tolerance and open texture of vague predicates, while foregoing excessive metaphysical commitments. I offer a novel solution to the infamous Sorites paradox, one that outrivals alternative contextualist theories in their ability to explain the phenomenology of vagueness as well as its deontic consequences.