...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract According to Composition as Identity (CAI), a whole is distinct from each of its parts individually, but identical to all of them taken together. It is sometimes claimed that, if you accept CAI, then your...

... from Donald Baxter according to which Composition as Identity provides us a means to understand the grief utterances literally. In doing so, I identify and develop a version of Leibniz's Law required for Composition as Identity to account for the truth of the grief utterances. In turn, this principle...

.... Composition as identity promises to explain this intimacy. But it threatens to make the connection too intimate, for surely the parts could have made a different whole and the whole have had different parts. This chapter attempts to offer an account of parthood that is intimate enough but not too intimate...

...Mereological Essentialism (ME) claims that an object is identical to its parts in every world in which it exists. Composition as Identity (CAI) claims that a composite object is (collectively) identical to its parts. Many think that CAI is false because CAI entails ME, and ME is absurd...

...Composition as identity, as understood here, is the thesis that a whole and all its parts collectively is the same thing under two different modes of presentation. Unrestricted composition is the thesis that any plurality composes something. The chapter first articulates a version of composition...

... nihilism; since manyism denies that composite objects are each one in number in addition to being many in number, it is distinct from the view known as composition as identity (CAI). What’s more, manyism is both coherent and attractive. Manyism is coherent because it can be underwritten by a defensible...

... by that? Could it be that a single whole just is its many parts? This collection of essays is the first of its kind to focus on the relationship between composition and identity. These twelve original articles—written by internationally renowned scholars and rising stars in the field—argue...

... that there are three Gods. It seems Trinitarian Christians are having trouble counting: they need 3 to equal 1. There has been a flurry of discussion about the claim that ‘composition is identity’, i.e., that pluralities are identical to the things that they compose (if there is something they compose). Many can...

... the motivations, varieties, and problems with the view that has come to be known as composition as identity. It also provides an introduction and background in formal mereology and plural logic that is necessary for understanding the contemporary debate. Baxter Donald Frege Gottlob Plurality Whole Aggregate...

...A plurality or plural object is a single object that is also many, and pluralitism is the thesis that there is such an object. This chapter argues that pluralitism and closely related theses (e.g. the many–one identity thesis and the composition as identity thesis) violate logic. To do so...

...‘Composition as identity’ is the radical claim that the whole is identical to the parts—radical because it implies that a single object can be identical to many objects. Composition as identity, together with auxiliary assumptions, implies the principle of ‘collapse’: an object is one of some...

...This chapter gives a regimented, formalized presentation of Donald Baxter’s theory of Composition as Identity. It highlights how Baxter’s theory differs from the more commonly discussed variant that David Lewis flirted with. Baxter’s theory depends heavily on his Theory of Aspects, which restricts...

... relation. Two different metaphysical pictures are briefly explored: either portions of reality are ordinary objects, or they are something distinct from ordinary objects. Cotnoir Aaron Hawley Katherine Lewis David composition as identity general identity counterparts stuff ontology portions...

... of Unrestricted Composition, in particular in the recently expanded version offered in Theodore Sider's, Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time; as well as Lewis' defence of the Composition-as-Identity Thesis in his Parts of Classes. It is argued that the three...

...Let’s provisionally understand compositional pluralism as the doctrine that there is more than one basic parthood relation. This chapter investigates to what extent compositional pluralism and composition as identity can form a coherent package of views. Since there are good arguments...

... mooreanism particularism Putnam H scattered objects undetached parts descriptive metaphysics folk the Kelly T ‘object’ sets Strawson P conservatism eliminativism permissivism universalism nihilism organicism methodology composition as identity plural reference mereology The arguments...