Chopping Up Gunk

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The Monist 87 (3):339-50 (2004)
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We show that someone who believes in both gunk and the possibility of supertasks has to give up either a plausible principle about where gunk can be located, or plausible conservation principles

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10.5840/monist200487316

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John Hawthorne
Australian Catholic University
Brian Weatherson
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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