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A substantial problem for priority monism.

Priority monism is the doctrine that there is exactly one substance: the whole concrete cosmos. This paper develops an objection to priority monism. The objection is that although every substance is necessarily a substance, for the priority monist the cosmos is not necessarily a substance. It follow...

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Published in:Ratio Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 347 - 354
Main Author: Glazier, Martin
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2023
Subjects:
Monism
Concrete
Pluralism
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