Do Chairs Exist?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

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.

Mereological nihilism has always struck me as word play. Instead of saying, ‘This is a chair and it is made of chair parts’ we should say, ‘This is a collection of simples arranged chair-wise.’

Am I missing something, or are those semantically equivalent statements?

Boru