GERMAN

Ontologie der Grenzen ausgedehnter Gegenstände

By Lukas Benedikt Kraus

Book information

Publisher
de Gruyter
Year
2016
ISBN
9783110498660, 9783110500080
Language
german
Format
EPUB
Filesize
16 MB (16703800 bytes)
Series
Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis; 72
Pages
335\0
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-07-20 18:33:22

Description

Is a lake’s surface made of water or air? When two extended objects are in contact, do their boundaries coincide? Is a new boundary created when an extended object is split? These and many other problems in the ontology of boundaries are grounded in the common assumption that boundaries are the outermost parts of extended objects. The author argues that this problematic assumption should be abandoned in favour of a relational view of boundaries.

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