Mind the Gap The Space Between Coincidence and Colocation

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Publication date 02-2022
Journal Journal of Philosophical Logic
Volume | Issue number 51 | 1
Pages (from-to) 57–73
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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract In debates about the metaphysics of material objects examples of colocated objects are commonly taken to be examples of coincidence too. But the argument that colocation is best understood as involving coincidence is never spelled out. This paper shows under what conditions colocation entails coincidence and argues that the entailment depends on a principle that actually rules out certain forms of colocation. This undermines the argument from colocation to coincidence.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-021-09609-5
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