Materiality, Parthood, and Possibility

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Erkenntnis 87:1125-1131 (2022)
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This paper offers an argument in favour of a Lewisian version of concretism that maintains both the principle of material inheritance (according to which, if all the parts of an object x are material, then x is material) and the materiality-modality link (that is, the principle that, for every x, if x is material, then x is possible).

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10.1007/s10670-020-00233-4

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Samuele Iaquinto
University of Eastern Piedmont
Giuliano Torrengo
Università degli Studi di Milano

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