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Ideas for Hermarchus, Timothy Williamson and Peter van Inwagen

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5. Theory of Logic / L. Paradox / 6. Paradoxes in Language / b. The Heap paradox ('Sorites')

17583	There are no heaps [Inwagen]
	Full Idea: Fortunately ....there are no heaps.
	From: Peter van Inwagen (Material Beings [1990], 18)
	A reaction: This is the nihilist view of (inorganic) physical objects. If a wild view solves all sorts of problems, one should take it serious. It is why I take reductive physicalism about the mind seriously. (Well, it's true, actually)

21599	A sorites stops when it collides with an opposite sorites [Williamson]
	Full Idea: A sorites paradox is stopped when it collides with a sorites paradox going in the opposite direction. That account will not strike a logician as solving the sorites paradox.
	From: Timothy Williamson (Vagueness [1994], 3.3)