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This work presents a theory about what kind of things exist. Trenton Merricks defends the following criterion for existence of a physical object: that it has a causal role over and above that of its parts.

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Main Author: Merricks, Trenton
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Ontology.
Whole and parts (Philosophy)
Agent (Philosophy)
Causation.
Causality
Ontologie.
Tout et parties (Philosophie)
Agent (Philosophie)
Causalité.
ontologies (vocabularies)
ontology (metaphysics)
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Causation
Ontology
Ontologie (filosofie)
Object (filosofie)
08.31 metaphysics.
Ontologie
Philosophy of Mind
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Call Number: BD396 .M47 2001eb
 
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