Harmoniously Investigating Concrete Structures

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 2 (3):190-195 (2013)
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Traynor identifies a tension between armchair reasoning telling us about the mereological structure of objects and empirical investigation telling us about the structure of spacetime. Section 1 explains, and bolsters, that tension. Section 2 discusses Traynor's resolution, and suggests some possible problems with it, whilst Section 3 discusses an alternative

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