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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