Ujvári, Márta [1999] 'Multi-criteria Predicates and Supervaluation', Acta Analytica 14, pp. .

Vagueness talk creates the illusion that our monadic predicates worth for consideration are simple in nature; i.e. their application depends on the fulfillment of one single criterion. Such predicates admit the total ordering of the objects falling under them and are Sorites-susceptible. By contrast, I suggest to consider the vagueness of multi-criteria predicates involving a cluster of associated properties and thus having a ‘number of independent conditions of application’.(E.W.Alston) I show that these predicates are not Sorites-susceptible because the n-tuples of incommensurable criteria do not admit total ordering. Weighting would help in ordering but there is no reason to suppose that actual language use proceeds by a consensus about weighting. This feature is not the sign of our ignorance: there is nothing more to know about the particulars; rather, we have to negotiate about the semantic decision. Multi-criteria predicates are natural candidates for the method of supervaluation because semantic assessment is an indispensible part of their condition of application. Tolerance is at work with these predicates but not with respect of a scale but with respect of a multiple realization. Thus what is missed by critics of supervaluationism, i.e. tolerance, has its proper role with multi-criteria predicates.