Neo-Aristotelian Plenitude.
Plenitude, roughly, the thesis that for any non-empty region of spacetime there is a material object that is exactly located at that region, is often thought to be part and parcel of the standard Lewisian package in the metaphysics of persistence. While the wedding of plentitude and Lewisian four-di...
| Published in: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 168; no. 3; pp. 583 - 598 |
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