Two Finean Arguments Reconsidered
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According to Classical Extensional Mereology, ordinary objects are unstructured. But our intuitions guide us in the opposite direction; ordinary objects (such as sandwiches, tables, and chairs) have their parts arranged in a precise way. Some philosophers take this thought as a decisive reason to find Classical Extensional Mereology inadequate to account for ordinary objects. Indeed, the two arguments (the Aggregative Objection and the Monster Objection) that Kit Fine presents in his paper Things and Their Parts, purports to show that Classical Extensional Mereology does not correctly represent the conditions of existence of ordinary objects. In this paper, I provide a detailed critique of the Finean objections in order to argue that we can continue to employ Classical Extensional Mereology for the analysis of ordinary objects.
keywordsAnalytic Metaphysics, Mereology, Classical Extensional Mereology, Parthood, Ordinary ObjectsAuthor biographyUniversità degli Studi di Milano. Email: marco.larotonda@studenti.unimi.it |
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