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(2014) Synthese 191 (7).
I argue that mereological nihilism fails because it cannot answer (what I describe as) the special arrangement question: when is it true that the xs (the mereological simples) are arranged F-wise? I suggest that the answers given in the literature fail and that the obvious responses that could be made look to undermine the motivations for adopting nihilism in the first place.
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DOI: 10.1007/s11229-013-0343-8
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Tallant, J. (2014). Against mereological nihilism. Synthese 191 (7), pp. 1511-1527.
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