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Author(s):  
Daniel Z. Korman ◽  
Chad Carmichael

This article is intended as an introduction to the central questions about composition and a highly selective overview of various answers to those questions. §1 reviews some formal features of parthood that are important for understanding the nature of composition. §2 examines the special composition question: which pluralities of objects together compose something? §§3–4 examines the argument from vagueness for unrestricted composition. §5 addresses questions concerning the uniqueness of composition, coincident objects, hylomorphism, and the so-called grounding problem. §6 concernes the question of which composites existfundamentally.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-211
Author(s):  
Timothy McCarthy

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