Full Idea
Merricks agrees with van Inwagen that there are no composite objects, but disagrees with him about the semantics of talk about material objects.
Gist of Idea
Merricks agrees that there are no composite objects, but offers a different semantics
Source
report of Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003]) by David Liggins - Nihilism without Self-Contradiction 4
Book Reference
'Being: Developments in Contemporary Metaphysics', ed/tr. Le Poidevin,R [CUP 2008], p.184
A Reaction
Van Inwagen has one semantics for folk talk, and another semantics 'for the philosophy room'. Merricks seems to have an error theory of folk semantics (i.e. the folk don't understand what they are saying).