In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: reply to Cumpa and Declos

Nikk Effingham

doi:10.1007/s11406-022-00532-w

In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: reply to Cumpa and Declos

Nikk Effingham

Philosophy

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Abstract

Mereological nominalism is the thesis that properties are identical to mereological fusions of their instances. Cumpa and Declos have raised two problems for the view. This paper is a reply to both problems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1707-1719
Number of pages	13
Journal	Philosophia
Volume	50
Issue number	4
Early online date	10 Jun 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-022-00532-w
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 10 Jun 2022

Keywords

Dependence
Mereological nominalism
Ontology
Properties

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