ABSTRACT

I defend the thesis that Composition Entails Identity (CEI): that is, a whole is identical to all of its parts, taken together. CEI seems to be inconsistent, since it seems to require that the parts of a whole possess incompatible number properties (for instance, being one thing and being many things). I show that these number properties are, in fact, compatible.

中文翻译：

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计数复合材料

摘要

我捍卫组合需要同一性 (CEI) 的论点：也就是说，一个整体与其所有部分放在一起是相同的。CEI 似乎是不一致的，因为它似乎要求整体的各个部分具有不相容的数字属性（例如，是一件事和多件事）。我表明这些数字属性实际上是兼容的。