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How to Precisify Quantifiers
2010
Journal of Philosophical Logic
Most people would deny that there is something entirely composed of Alpha Centauri and my left thumb. We are more tolerant of composites whose parts are more "connected", a prime example being molecules. And then there are the various "intermediate" candidates, perhaps the mereological sum of a pregnant woman and the foetus, or schools of fish-cases in which we are not sure whether "there are" such putative things. As we move along the succession of mereological sums from the very connected
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