A Sudden Collapse to Nihilism

Philosophical Quarterly 68 (271):370-375 (2018)
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According to Composition is Identity, a whole is literally identical to the plurality of its parts. According to Mereological Nihilism, nothing has proper parts. In this note, it is argued that Composition is Identity can be shown to entail Mereological Nihilism in a much more simple and direct way than the one recently proposed by Claudio Calosi.

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Ordinary objects.Daniel Z. Korman - 2011 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Failure of Boredom: The Pendulum of Composition as Identity.Claudio Calosi - 2018 - American Philosophical Quarterly 55 (3):281-292.
On atomic composition as identity.Roberto Loss - 2019 - Synthese 198 (Suppl 18):4519-4542.
Composition, identity and plural ontology.Roberto Loss - 2020 - Synthese 198 (10):9193-9210.

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