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Metaphysics

view that there are no composite objects, only simples arranged in various ways, so that parthood relations never hold between distinct things.

In metaphysics, mereological nihilism refers to view that there are no composite objects, only simples arranged in various ways, so that parthood relations never hold between distinct things. This meaning comes from Sider (2013) in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 8.[1]

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Sider, T. (2013). Against Parthood. In Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 8 (pp. 236-293). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682904.003.0006

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