Basic Objects as Grounds

Bill Brewer

doi:10.1017/9781316612897.004

Basic Objects as Grounds

Bill Brewer

Philosophy

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According to our commonsense world-view, macroscopic material objects endure, are never precisely collocated with each other, and may survive the loss of at least some of their parts. But these commitments are notoriously difficult to reconcile. My project in what follows is to elaborate an account that succeeds in reconciling them in the most basic cases, of what I call Natural Continuants, and to explore its potential as an adequate overall theory by explaining how such basic objects may serve as the grounds for various other material things.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ordinary Objects
Editors	Javier Cumpa, Bill Brewer
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Pages	48-62
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316612897.004
Publication status	Published - 2019

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