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Full Idea
If composition just requires contact, if I cause the cue ball to rebound from the eight ball, do I thereby create a short-lived object shaped like two slightly flattened spheres in contact?
Gist of Idea
If contact causes composition, do two colliding balls briefly make one object?
Source
Peter van Inwagen (Material Beings [1990], 03)
Book Ref
Inwagen,Peter van: 'Material Beings' [Cornell 1995], p.35
A Reaction
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