Tag: David Lewis
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Mereological Innocence and Composition as Identity
This is the third in a series. Part I, Part II. What follows is a 10th example of eliminativist/reductivist ambiguity. One of the axioms of mereology is Unrestricted Composition. Here is David Lewis' formulation (Parts of Classes, Basil Blackwell 1991, p. 74): Unrestricted Composition: Whenever there are some things, then there exists a fusion of…