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Full Idea
I say we should endorse eliminativism about physical objects, because it offers the most plausible understanding of what occurs during the Sorites Game (eliminating grains of a thing one at a time).
Gist of Idea
Eliminativism about objects gives the best understanding of the Sorites paradox
Source
Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §2.II)
Book Ref
Merricks,Trenton: 'Objects and Persons' [OUP 2003], p.35
A Reaction
That is one route to go in explaining the paradox (i.e. by saying there never was a 'heap' in the first place). I suspect a better route is to say that heaps really exist as natural phenomena, but they suffer from vague identity and borderline cases.
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