tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post565674947584960728..comments2022-03-25T07:20:12.468-04:00Comments on Matters of Substance: Against Extended SimplesGabriele Contessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13607158011908969169noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post-62857060788513723932021-02-12T16:03:26.418-05:002021-02-12T16:03:26.418-05:00Can a mereological atom be extended? Perhaps it...Can a mereological atom be extended? Perhaps it's like top-down causation, except top-down extension: the extension is not in virtue of more basic parts.Joshua Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03271147200091927898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post-36703888817916217302021-02-12T16:02:28.409-05:002021-02-12T16:02:28.409-05:00Yes, that's basically the strategy Peter van I...Yes, that's basically the strategy Peter van Inwagen took when I pressed examples like these years ago...Joshua Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03271147200091927898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post-63146965665963243172021-02-12T13:41:01.525-05:002021-02-12T13:41:01.525-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Joshua Rasmussenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03271147200091927898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post-70209156294125607492021-02-12T13:38:15.551-05:002021-02-12T13:38:15.551-05:00Very much thinking out loud here:
perhaps 3 is fal...Very much thinking out loud here:<br />perhaps 3 is false because the only extended simples there can be are "ghostly" extended simples: penetrable, massless (and so weightless) particles, like a giant photonKit Alcockhttp://kitalcockblog.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post-45255726976681234062021-02-12T13:33:59.129-05:002021-02-12T13:33:59.129-05:00Are simples mereological atoms? If so, how could a...Are simples mereological atoms? If so, how could a sum of unextended things ever yield an extended thing?Chris Menzelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11350629877252181466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8027844571839885250.post-1735881208207774162021-02-12T13:33:19.121-05:002021-02-12T13:33:19.121-05:00Can't some of the usual strategies for variati...Can't some of the usual strategies for variation in extended simples be applied here? For example, the cause acts on the left-side matter of S, but not the right side. Or the cause causes S to have the property of being unevenly weighted left-ly. Justinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05201810559474913784noreply@blogger.com