AN ARGUMENT FOR EXISTENCE MONISM: THE ARGUMENT FROM OBJECT DUPLICATION

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  • May 15, 2019
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  • Ho, Loc
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy
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  • Contemporary arguments for existence monism are in short supply. The main contemporary argument for the view is Horgan and Potrč’s argument for blobjectivism, but this argument is rather unpersuasive. I present my own argument for existence monism based on a thought experiment where objects are duplicated and replaced with their duplicate. I argue that the cosmos is the only genuine object that exists because all other seemingly genuine objects fail the test for genuineness. That is, their duplication and replacement result in a certain kind of non-qualitative change to the cosmos itself, whereas truly genuine objects would not result in such a change.
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  • Hofweber, Thomas
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  • Bachelor of Arts
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  • Philosophy
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • 2019
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  • English

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