Cover Image
QR Code

Spacetime and Mereology.

Unrestricted Composition (UC) is, roughly, the claim that given any objects at all, there is something which those objects compose. (UC) conflicts in an obvious way with common sense. It has as a consequence, for instance, that there is something which has as parts my nose and the moon. One of the m...

Full description

Published in:Erkenntnis Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 17 - 36
Main Author: Wake, Andrew
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Jan2011
Subjects:
Universals (Philosophy)
Spacetime
Vagueness (Philosophy)
Whole & parts (Philosophy)
Ambiguity
Meaning (Philosophy)
Lewis, David
Sider, Theodore
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost