Abstract
In Parts of Classes David Lewis argued that mereology is ‘ontologically innocent’, mereological notions not incurring additional ontological commitments. Unfortunately, though, Lewis’s argument for this is not fully spelled out. Here we use some formal results concerning translations between formal languages to argue for the ontological innocence of mereology directly.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 683-704 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Erkenntnis |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue number | 4 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug-2015 |