This paper develops an account of pluralities based on the following simple claim: some things are nothing over and above the individual things they comprise. For some, this may seem like a mysterious statement, perhaps even meaningless; for others, like a truism, trivial and inferentially inert. I show that neither reaction is correct: the claim is both tractable and has important consequences for a number of debates in philosophy.

中文翻译：

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复数是无所谓的

本文基于以下简单主张对多元性进行了阐述：有些事物除了它们所构成的个别事物之外，什么都不是。对于某些人来说，这似乎是一个神秘的陈述，甚至可能毫无意义；对于其他人来说，就像一个不言而喻，琐碎和推理惰性。我表明这两种反应都不正确：这种说法既容易处理，又对哲学中的许多辩论产生了重要影响。