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deflationary metaphysics ordinary language easy ontology metaontology metametaphysics existence questions Amie Thomasson Eli Hirsch neo-carnapian metaphysics Context Principle Mereology

When behavior is interpreted in a reliable manner (i.e., robustly across different situations and times) its explained meaning may be seen to possess hermeneutic consistency. In this essay I present an evaluation of the...

Ontology Mereology facet theory mapping sentence meta-ontology meta-mereology

The paper argues that very different part-whole relations hold between different kinds of entities. While these relations share most of their formal properties, they need not share all of them. Nor need other mereological...

Mereology