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Monism and Statespace Structure*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2008

Theodore Sider
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Exotic ontologies are all the rage. Distant from common sense and often science as well, views like mereological essentialism, nihilism, and four-dimensionalism appeal to our desire to avoid arbitrariness, anthropocentrism, and metaphysical conundrums.

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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 62 , July 2008 , pp. 129 - 150
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2008

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