Gunky Objects in a Simple World
Philo 9 (1):39-46 (2006)
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Suppose that a material object is gunky: all of its parts are located in space, and each of its parts has a proper part. Does it follow from this hypothesis that the space in which that object resides must itself be gunky? I argue that it does not. There is room for gunky objects in a space that decomposes without remainder into mereological simples
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| ISBN(s) | 1098-3570 |
| DOI | 10.5840/philo2006914 |
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