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Abstract......Page 3 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Preface......Page 9 I Composition......Page 12 Folk mereology and its justification......Page 13 Fictionalism about folk mereology......Page 22 Pragmatic and semantic versions of fictionalism......Page 25 Why believe folk mereology?......Page 34 An argument from counterfactuals......Page 52 An argument by analogy......Page 61 Objections......Page 68 Why there are no composite things......Page 75 Is the claim that there are composite things inconsistent?......Page 79 People......Page 84 A Kripkean challenge......Page 88 A metalinguistic version of the counterfactual theory......Page 97 The principles of the mereological fiction......Page 100 Necessity according to the fiction......Page 114 II Complex Attributes......Page 122 The question......Page 123 Sharpening the question......Page 127 The temptation to think that Nihilism is inconsistent......Page 132 Making up one's mind......Page 137 Appendices......Page 143 Epiphenomenal properties......Page 163 Epiphenomenal properties at a simple world......Page 166 Metaphysical and nomological redundancy......Page 169 Other simple worlds......Page 171 Epiphenomenal properties at more compli

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Author

Cian Sean Dorr

Published

2002

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction