Merricks on the existence of human organisms

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (3):711–718 (2003)
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BB Whenever a baseball causes an event, the baseball’s constituent atoms also cause that event, and the baseball is causally irrelevant to whether those atoms cause that event

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10.1111/j.1933-1592.2003.tb00320.x

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