PHILOS 125 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mereology, If And Only If
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Van cleve"s argument against the common sense view that not all collections of things compose objects (i. e. the restricted composition view): van cleve: when are objects parts? always. Is it over and above the matter of which it is composed. Aristotelian answer is yes : if yes , then the snowball is a compound of matter and essential form when the snow becomes a ball, a genuinely new entity is formed. Not identical to snow: but then all the intermediate forms are real too, two or more things cannot be in the same place at the same time. There cannot be difference of entities without different of content. 24158742, 2: eliminativist (a) composite entities are ctions or logical constructions. So we must reject all absolutisms, which violates relativism (for all schemes should be on a par: between scylla and charybdis (a) uniqueness axiiom. For a given region of space, there will be at most one entity that.
