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Vague Singulars, Semantic Indecision, and the Metaphysics of Persons *
Author(s) -
SMITH DONALD P.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2007.00040.x
Subject(s) - falsity , argument (complex analysis) , materialism , metaphysics , epistemology , philosophy , philosophy of mind , eliminative materialism , medicine
Composite materialism, as I will understand it, is the view that human persons are composite material objects. This paper develops and investigates an argument, The Vague Singulars Argument, for the falsity of composite materialism. We shall see that cogent or not, the Vague Singulars Argument has philosophically significant ramifications.