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Abstract
The mereological predicate ‘is part of’ can be used to define the predicate ‘is identical with’. I argue that this entails that mereological theories can be ideologically simpler than nihilistic theories that do not use the notion of parthood—contrary to what has been argued by Ted Sider. Moreover, if one accepts an extensional mereology, there are good philosophical reasons apart from ideological simplicity to give a mereological definition of identity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2367-2385 |
| Journal | Synthese |
| Volume | 194 |
| Issue number | 7 |
| Early online date | 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 Jul |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Philosophy
Free keywords
- Parthood
- Identity
- Mereology Nihilism
- Ideological simplicity
- Theory-choice
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- 1 Doctoral Thesis (compilation)
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Parthood, Identity, and Composition: Studies of Mereology
Smid, J., 2017, 226 p.Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis (compilation)
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- 1 Active
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Metaphysics and Collectivity
Petersson, B. (Project coordinator), Blomberg, O. (Researcher), Björnsson, G. (Researcher), Brännmark, J. (Researcher), Burman, Å. (Researcher), Hansson Wahlberg, T. (Researcher), Lo Presti, P. (PI), Maurin, A.-S. (Researcher), Smid, J. (Researcher) & Szigeti, A. (Researcher)
2012/03/01 → …
Project: Network