Composition as Identity and Plural Cantor's Theorem

Logic and Logical Philosophy 25 (3) (2016)
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I argue that Composition as Identity blocks the plural version of Cantor's Theorem, and that therefore the plural version of Cantor's Theorem can no longer be uncritically appealed to. As an example, I show how this result blocks a recent argument by Hawthorne and Uzquiano.

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