When rejecting the induction step produces a regress of higher-order vagueness, as Fara and Williamson argue, the paradox has been transformed into an infinite hierarchy of problems rather than resolved.
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When you try to fix a vague boundary by drawing a precise line, but then you face the same vagueness problem all over again—the new line itself becomes unclear why it's the right one.
induction step(Sorites paradox formulation)
The second premise of the sorites paradox: the conditional claim that if an n-day-old human being is a child, then an (n+1)-day-old human being is also a child.