How Many Angels Can Be in the Same Place at the Same Time? A Defence of Mereological Universalism

Mind 125 (500):959-965 (2016)
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I reply to Hawthorne and Uzquiano’s arguments for the incompatibility between mereological universalism and plenitudinous co-location. I argue that a mereology in which antisymmetry for parthood fails is independently motivated, and allows for both universalism and plenitudinous co-location. There can be as many angels in a place as there are cardinalities.

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A. J. Cotnoir
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