Failure of Boredom: The Pendulum of Composition as Identity

American Philosophical Quarterly 55 (3):281-292 (2018)
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This paper provides new arguments for the following claim: either strong composition as identity cannot retain the full strength of both the logical principles of one-one identity and its semantical principles or it only delivers cases of boring composition in that it entails mereological nihilism.

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