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- Title
Non-concrete parts of material objects.
- Authors
Longenecker, Michael Tze-Sung
- Abstract
This article offers a novel solution to the problem of material constitution: by including non-concrete objects among the parts of material objects, we can avoid having a statue and its constituent piece of clay composed of all the same proper parts. Non-concrete objects—objects that aren’t concrete, but possibly are—have been used (by Bernard Linsky, Ed Zalta and Timothy Williamson) in defense of the claim that everything necessarily exists. But the account offered shows that non-concreta are independently useful in other domains as well. The resulting view falls under a ‘nonmaterial partist’ class of views that includes, in particular, Laurie Paul’s and Kathrin Koslicki’s constitution views; ones where material objects have properties or structures as parts respectively. The article gives reasons for preferring the non-concretist solution over these other non-material partist views and defends it against objections.
- Subjects
WHOLE &; parts (Philosophy); HYLOMORPHISM; PAUL, Laurie; KOSLICKI, Kathrin; LINSKY, Bernard
- Publication
Synthese, 2018, Vol 195, Issue 11, p5091
- ISSN
0039-7857
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11229-017-1451-7