How Many Angels Can Be in the Same Place at the Same Time? A Defence of Mereological Universalism

被引：2
作者：
Cotnoir, A. J. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ St Andrews, St Andrews KY16 9AJ, Fife, Scotland
来源：
MIND | 2016年 / 125卷 / 500期
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D O I：
10.1093/mind/fzv158
中图分类号：
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要：
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.
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