Counting composites
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2021-08-21
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Source Title
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Print ISSN
0004-8402
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1471-6828
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Routledge
Volume
100
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4
Pages
695 - 710
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English
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Abstract
I defend the thesis that Composition Entails Identity (CEI): that is, a whole is identical to all of its parts, taken together. CEI seems to be inconsistent, since it seems to require that the parts of a whole possess incompatible number properties (for instance, being one thing and being many things). I show that these number properties are, in fact, compatible.