Objects And Their Matter


Συγγραφέας: Eric T. Olson


Eric T. Olson: Objects And Their Matter (pdf, 234K)
How does an ordinary thing relate to its matter? lf they are identical, ordinary things cannot change their matter, and never persist as ordinary things for more than a moment. lf they are distinct, then every ordinary thing coincides with a second material thing, as "constitution" and temporal-parts views have it. Both alternatives presuppose that the matter of an ordinary thing is itself a concrete entity: a "mass of matter". This paper defends the view that there are no masses, but only particles.





  





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