{"id":1419,"date":"2023-05-27T18:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T18:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/pluralities\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T18:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T18:15:54","slug":"pluralities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/pluralities\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluralities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">To what does the plural referring expression, &#39;the cats in my house,&#39; refer? Not to plurality, but to <em>a<\/em> plurality. <em>A<\/em> plurality is <em>one<\/em> item, not many items. It is one item with many members. &#39;The guitars in my house&#39; refers to a numerically different plurality. It too refers to one item with many members.&#0160; It follows that a plurality cannot be identical to <em>its<\/em> members.&#0160; For if it were there would be no &#39;it.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">I am <em>not<\/em> saying that a plurality is a mathematical set. I am saying that a plurality is not just its members.&#0160; I am rejecting <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2010\/09\/mereological-innocence-and-composition-as-identity.html\">Composition as Identity<\/a>. If the Londonistas do not agree with the Phoenician on this one, then I fear that there is little point to further discussion. We are at the non-negotiable.&#0160; We are at bedrock and &quot;my spade is turned.&quot;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what does the plural referring expression, &#39;the cats in my house,&#39; refer? Not to plurality, but to a plurality. A plurality is one item, not many items. It is one item with many members. &#39;The guitars in my house&#39; refers to a numerically different plurality. It too refers to one item with many members.&#0160; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/pluralities\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pluralities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[408,83,98,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-philosophy-of","category-nominalism-and-realism","category-unity-of-a-complex","category-wholes-and-parts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}