How many angels can be in the same place at the same time? A defense of mereological universalism
Abstract
I reply to Hawthorne and Uzquiano's (2011) arguments for the incompatibility between mereological universalism and plenitudinous co-location. I argue that a mereology in which antisymmetry for parthood fails is independently motivated, and allows for both universalism and plenitudinous co-location. There can be as many angels in a place as there are cardinalities.
Citation
Cotnoir , A 2016 , ' How many angels can be in the same place at the same time? A defense of mereological universalism ' , Mind , vol. 125 , no. 500 , pp. 959-965 . https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzv158
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Mind
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0026-4423Type
Journal article
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© Cotnoir 2016. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzv158
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