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'works', 'Objects and Persons' and 'A Defense of Abortion'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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I say that most of the objects of folk ontology do not exist [Merricks]
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Is swimming pool water an object, composed of its mass or parts? [Merricks]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples
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We can eliminate objects without a commitment to simples [Merricks]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Merricks agrees that there are no composite objects, but offers a different semantics [Merricks, by Liggins]
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The 'folk' way of carving up the world is not intrinsically better than quite arbitrary ways [Merricks]
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If atoms 'arranged baseballwise' break a window, that analytically entails that a baseball did it [Merricks, by Thomasson]
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Overdetermination: the atoms do all the causing, so the baseball causes no breakage [Merricks]
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