 There is a final concern about the “ontological honesty” of the supervaluationist’s existential quantifier. As part of his solution to the sorites paradox, the supervaluationist asserts, ‘There is a human being who was a child when \(n\) days old but not when \(n + 1\) days old’. For this statement comes out true under all admissible precisifications of ‘child’. However, when pressed the supervaluationist adds a codicil: “Oh, of course I do not mean that there really is a sharp threshold for childhood.”