Self-Determination in Plenitude.

On a plenitudinous ontology, in every filled region of spacetime, there is at least one object that's 'exactly then and there'; one per each modal profile that the matter in the region satisfies. One of the strongest arguments for plenitude, the "argument from anthropocentrism" (also known as the ar...

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Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 87; no. 5; pp. 2397 - 2419
Main Author: Kurtsal, Irem
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Published: Springer Nature Oct2022
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