Full Idea
I am happy to accept universal composition, on the grounds that there are heaps, piles etc with no integral unity, and that arbitrary composites are no less unified than heaps.
Gist of Idea
There exist heaps with no integral unity, so we should accept arbitrary composites in the same way
Source
Jonathan Schaffer (On What Grounds What [2009], 2.1 n11)
Book Reference
'Metametaphysics', ed/tr. Chalmers/Manley/Wasserman [OUP 2009], p.358
A Reaction
The metaphysical focus is then placed on what constitutes 'integral unity', which is precisely the question which most interested Aristotle. Clearly if there is nothing more to an entity than its components, scattering them isn't destruction.