Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: I examine a package of views about facts: (1) the mereological sum of two facts is their conjunction, (2) the sum of facts obeys the laws of classical mereology, (3) facts are closed under disjunction and (4) facts are identical when they necessarily co-obtain. I show that this package of principles collapses: they jointly entail that there is at most one fact. I discuss four possible solutions, each consisting in the rejection of one of the principles.
Source: Analysis
Author: Alejandro G Di Rienzo
Institution: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,798
Awards: G5805502524, G6711988405
OpenAlex ID: W4414798561