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Against mereological nihilism
I argue that mereological nihilism fails because it cannot answer (what I describe as) the special arrangement question: when is it true that the xs (the mereological simples) are arranged F-wise? I suggest that the answers given in the literature fail and that the obvious responses that could be made look to undermine the motivations for adopting nihilism in the first place.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thought: A Journal of Philosophy
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2161-2234
DOI: 10.1002/tht3.262