RT Journal Article
T1 A Mereological Slingshot
A1 Di Rienzo, Alejandro Gracia
K1 Facts
K1 Mereology
K1 Slingshot
K1 States of affairs
AB I examine a package of views about facts: (1) the mereological sum of two facts is their conjunction, (2) the sum of facts obeys the laws of classical mereology, (3) facts are closed under disjunction and (4) facts are identical when they necessarily co-obtain. I show that this package of principles collapses: they jointly entail that there is at most one fact. I discuss four possible solutions, each consisting in the rejection of one of the principles
PB Oxford Academic
SN 0003-2638
YR 2025
FD 2025-10-03
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10347/46387
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10347/46387
LA eng
NO Di Rienzo, A. G. (2025). A mereological slingshot. Analysis, 10.1093/analys/anaf064
DS Minerva
RD 23 may 2026