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A puzzle concerning boundaries, dependence, and parthood

Smid, Jeroen LU (2015) In Analytic Philosophy 56(2). p.169-176
Abstract
This paper presents three claims concerning boundaries, dependence and parthood. The claims are intuitively plausible, but cannot, at face value, all be true on pain of contradiction. Each of the three claims is shown to be more plausible than its converse and some solutions to the puzzle are presented.
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keywords
Ontological Dependence, Parthood, Boundary, Mereology, Mereotopology
in
Analytic Philosophy
volume
56
issue
2
pages
169 - 176
publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc.
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  • wos:000364160400004
ISSN
2153-960X
DOI
10.1111/phib.12061
project
Metaphysics and Collectivity
language
English
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yes
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Article first published online: 19 MAY 2015
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