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Ideas for 'Natural Kinds', 'Davidson on himself' and 'Nihilism without Self-Contradiction'

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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

14233	Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys [Liggins]
	Full Idea: We can interpret '..is a part of..' as '..are among..': the xs are a part of the ys just when the xs are among the ys (though if the ys are 'one' then they would not have parts).
	From: David Liggins (Nihilism without Self-Contradiction [2008], 9)
	A reaction: The trouble is that this still leaves us with gerrymandered 'parts', in the form of xs that are scattered randomly among the ys. That's not what we mean by 'part'. No account of identity works if it leaves out coherent structure.