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dc.contributor.authorCotnoir, Aaron
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-01T00:02:09Z
dc.date.available2015-03-01T00:02:09Z
dc.date.issued2013-03
dc.identifier.citationCotnoir , A 2013 , ' Beyond atomism ' , Thought: A Journal of Philosophy , vol. 2 , no. 1 , pp. 67-72 . https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.64en
dc.identifier.issn2161-2234
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 166205675
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: e14d7f1e-5da2-43d1-a206-a95bd65b1a84
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0003-4528-7570/work/65702589
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6146
dc.descriptionDate of Acceptance: 06/08/2013en
dc.description.abstractContemporary metaphysicians have been drawn to a certain attractive picture of the structure of the world. This picture consists in classical mereology, the priority of parts over wholes, and the well-foundedness of metaphysical priority. In this short note, I show that this combination of theses entails superatomism, which is a significant strengthening of mereological atomism. This commitment has been missed in the literature due to certain sorts of models of mereology being overlooked. But the entailment is an important one: we must either accept superatomism or reject one (or other) of the most widespread theses of contemporary metaphysics.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofThought: A Journal of Philosophyen
dc.rights© 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc and the Northern Institute of Philosophy. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Cotnoir, A. J. (2013), Beyond Atomism. Thought: A Journal of Philosophy, 2: 67–72, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/tht3.64. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archivingen
dc.subjectOntologyen
dc.subjectDependenceen
dc.subjectPriorityen
dc.subjectGroundingen
dc.subjectMereologyen
dc.subjectParthooden
dc.subjectWell-foundednessen
dc.subjectAtomismen
dc.subjectGunken
dc.subjectMonismen
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleBeyond atomismen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.64
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2015-03-01


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