Composition as pattern.

I argue for patternism, a new answer to the question of when some objects compose a whole. None of the standard principles of composition comfortably capture our natural judgments, such as that my cat exists and my table exists, but there is nothing wholly composed of them. Patternism holds, very ro...

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Publicado en:Philosophical Studies Vol. 176; no. 5; pp. 1119 - 1140
Autor principal: Petersen, Steve
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Publicado: Springer Nature May2019
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