Conjoining

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 41 (3):371-385 (1981)
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When is it that two objects compose a whole? Or, put another way, if Z is an object composed of X and Y, then what must be done to bring it about that X and Y both exist and Z does not exist? The author defends an answer to what is now know as the Special Composition Question.

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