Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.450
Title: Whitehead's principle
Authors: Blumson, Ben 
Singh, Manikaran
Keywords: Arts & Humanities
Philosophy
PARTS
Issue Date: 1-Jun-2020
Publisher: WILEY
Citation: Blumson, Ben, Singh, Manikaran (2020-06-01). Whitehead's principle. THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY 9 (2) : 115-127. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1002/tht3.450
Abstract: According to Whitehead's rectified principle, two individuals are connected just in case there is something self-connected which overlaps both of them, and every part of which overlaps one of them. Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi have offered a counterexample to the principle, consisting of an individual which has no self-connected parts. But since atoms are self-connected, Casati and Varzi's counterexample presupposes the possibility of gunk or, in other words, things which have no atoms as parts. So one may still wonder whether Whitehead's rectified principle follows from the assumption of atomism. This paper presents an atomic countermodel to show the answer is no.
Source Title: THOUGHT-A JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/229857
ISSN: 21612234
DOI: 10.1002/tht3.450
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