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      Composition and plethological innocence

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      Author(s)
      Payton, Jonathan D.
      Date
      2021-11-15
      Source Title
      Analysis
      Print ISSN
      0003-2638
      Electronic ISSN
      1467-8284
      Publisher
      Oxford University Press
      Volume
      82
      Issue
      1
      Pages
      67 - 74
      Language
      English
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      Article
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      Abstract
      According to Composition as Identity (CAI), a whole is distinct from each of its parts individually, but identical to all of them taken together. It is sometimes claimed that, if you accept CAI, then your belief in a whole is ‘ontologically innocent’ with respect to your belief in its parts. This claim is false. But the defender of CAI can claim a different advantage for her view. Following Agustín Rayo, I distinguish ontology (which concerns what there is) from plethology (which concerns what there are). I then show that CAI allows us to introduce an interesting notion of ‘plethological innocence’ which would otherwise collapse into the notion of ‘ontological innocence’, and that CAI renders belief in composite objects plethologically (but not ontologically) innocent.
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      http://hdl.handle.net/11693/111801
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      https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anab056
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