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On the Overlap Between Everything and Nothing
Author(s) -
Massimiliano Carrara,
Filippo Mancini,
Jeroen Smid
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
logic and logical philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.416
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 2300-9802
pISSN - 1425-3305
DOI - 10.12775/llp.2021.013
Subject(s) - nothing , extensional definition , mereology , transitive relation , object (grammar) , relation (database) , identity (music) , philosophy , epistemology , mathematics , computer science , combinatorics , geology , aesthetics , linguistics , paleontology , data mining , tectonics
Graham Priest has recently proposed a solution to the problem of the One and the Many which involves inconsistent objects and a non-transitive identity relation. We show that his solution entails either that the object everything is identical with the object nothing or that they are mutual parts; depending on whether Priest goes for an extensional or a non-extensional mereology.

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