In Favour of Mereological Nominalism: reply to Cumpa and Declos

Philosophia 50 (4):1707-1719 (2022)
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Mereological nominalism is the thesis that properties are identical to mereological fusions of their instances. Cumpa and Declos have raised two problems for the view. This paper is a reply to both problems.

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10.1007/s11406-022-00532-w

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