Against mereological nihilism

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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 ma...

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Main Author:	Tallant, Jonathan
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer 2013
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2393/

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