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Classes are states of affairs
Mind 100 (2):189-200 (1991)
Abstract
Argues that a set is the mereological whole of the singleton sets of its members (following Lewis's Parts of Classes), and that the singleton set of X is the state of affairs of X's having some unit-making property.My notes
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