(September 16, 2021 at 8:23 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote:(September 16, 2021 at 8:11 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I lean towards mereological nihilism. But I was just yanking brewer's chain.
I liked mereological nihilism too. One of the reasons it seems so appealing is that, otherwise, there would have to be a Platonic form of the chair "out there" somewhere. And I have trouble believing that. But if that isn't true at all, then mereological nihilism must be true.
That Platonic forms, if they exist, must be "out there" is the misguided notion based on folk experiences of time and space. Another way to think of them are as telelogical laws and limiting principles embedded within reality, not out there, but latent.
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