A Mereological Slingshot

I examine a package of views about facts: (1) the mereological sum of two facts is their conjunction, (2) the sum of facts obeys the laws of classical mereology, (3) facts are closed under disjunction and (4) facts are identical when they necessarily co-obtain. I show that this package of principles...

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Autor: Di Rienzo, Alejandro Gracia
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Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
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Mereology
Slingshot
States of affairs
72 Filosofía
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spelling A Mereological SlingshotDi Rienzo, Alejandro GraciaFactsMereologySlingshotStates of affairs72 FilosofíaI examine a package of views about facts: (1) the mereological sum of two facts is their conjunction, (2) the sum of facts obeys the laws of classical mereology, (3) facts are closed under disjunction and (4) facts are identical when they necessarily co-obtain. I show that this package of principles collapses: they jointly entail that there is at most one fact. I discuss four possible solutions, each consisting in the rejection of one of the principlesOxford AcademicUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela. Departamento de Filosofía e Antropoloxía20252025-10-0320252025-10-03journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501AMhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10347/46387reponame:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostelainstname:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dnet:minerva_____::9c8f155ef760828574f515dac08c4d042026-06-15T12:47:27Z
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title A Mereological Slingshot
spellingShingle A Mereological Slingshot
Di Rienzo, Alejandro Gracia
Facts
Mereology
Slingshot
States of affairs
72 Filosofía
title_short A Mereological Slingshot
title_full A Mereological Slingshot
title_fullStr A Mereological Slingshot
title_full_unstemmed A Mereological Slingshot
title_sort A Mereological Slingshot
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Di Rienzo, Alejandro Gracia
author Di Rienzo, Alejandro Gracia
author_facet Di Rienzo, Alejandro Gracia
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Facts
Mereology
Slingshot
States of affairs
72 Filosofía
topic Facts
Mereology
Slingshot
States of affairs
72 Filosofía
description I examine a package of views about facts: (1) the mereological sum of two facts is their conjunction, (2) the sum of facts obeys the laws of classical mereology, (3) facts are closed under disjunction and (4) facts are identical when they necessarily co-obtain. I show that this package of principles collapses: they jointly entail that there is at most one fact. I discuss four possible solutions, each consisting in the rejection of one of the principles
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