Much Ado About Nothing

Australasian Journal of Logic 11 (2) (2014)
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The point of this paper is to bring together three topics: non-existent objects, mereology, and nothing. There are important inter-connections, which it is my aim to spell out, in the service of an account of the last of these.

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10.26686/ajl.v11i2.2144

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Material Beings.Peter Van Inwagen - 1990 - Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Parts of Classes.David K. Lewis - 1991 - Mind 100 (3):394-397.
Mereology.Achille C. Varzi - 2016 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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