Is Weak Supplementation analytic?
| Autor: | Aaron J. Cotnoir |
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| Přispěvatelé: | The Leverhulme Trust, University of St Andrews. Philosophy |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Supplementation
Analyticity media_common.quotation_subject T-NDAS Subject (philosophy) Metaphysics B Philosophy (General) 0603 philosophy ethics and religion 050105 experimental psychology Philosophy of language Identity Extensionality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Set (psychology) Parthood media_common Philosophy of science Philosophy 05 social sciences General Social Sciences 06 humanities and the arts Epistemology Identity (philosophy) 060302 philosophy B1 Mereology |
| Zdroj: | Synthese. 198:4229-4245 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0964 0039-7857 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-018-02066-9 |
| Popis: | The research and writing of this paper was supported in part by a 2017-2018 Leverhulme Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust. Mereological principles are often controversial; perhaps the most stark contrast is between those who claim that Weak Supplementation is analytic—constitutive of our notion of proper parthood—and those who argue that the principle is simply false, and subject to many counterexamples. The aim of this paper is to diagnose the source of this dispute. I’ll suggest that the dispute has arisen by participants failing to be sensitive to two different conceptions of proper parthood: the outstripping conception and the non-identity conception. I’ll argue that the outstripping conception (together with a specific set of definitions for other mereological notions), can deliver the analyticity of Weak Supplementation on at least one sense of ‘analyticity’. I’ll also suggest that the non-identity conception cannot do so independently of considerations to do with mereological extensionality. Publisher PDF |
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