Atoms, combs, syllables and organisms.
Mereological atomism is the thesis that everything is ultimately composed of atomic parts, i.e., parts without proper parts. Typically, this thesis is characterized by an axiom stating that everything has atomic parts. The present paper argues that the success of this standard characterization depen...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 180; no. 7; pp. 1995 - 2025 |
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