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Philosophy

Mereological Nihilism and the Rejection of Composite Objects

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Mereological nihilists argue that only subatomic particles (or other physical simples) exist; the table is just a useful fiction, no more real than a constellation.

Why this is interesting

You are looking at a table, but what if the table—as a whole—doesn't actually exist?