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The Supreme Court and the Supreme Court Justices: A Metaphysical Puzzle
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This article is published in Noûs.The article was published on 2004-03-01. It has received 56 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Supreme court & Concurring opinion.read more
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What are groups
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a view of groups, things like teams, committees, clubs and courts, which they call concreta groups, that is, groups exist only when a group structure is realized.
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Ontological individualism reconsidered
TL;DR: It is argued that ontological individualism is false, and even when individualistic facts are expanded to include people’s local environments and practices, those still underdetermine the social facts that obtain, which has implications for explanation as well as ontology.
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The Metaphysics of Social Groups
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine answers to the question "Do groups exist?" and argue that worries about puzzles of composition, motivations to accept methodological individualism, and a rejection of Racialism support a negative answer.
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The metaphysics of groups
TL;DR: The third option is to identify groups with sets, which meets all of the desiderata if only we take care over which sets they are identified with as mentioned in this paper, which is the only one we consider in this paper.
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The Statue and the Clay
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the nature of the relation tripartite x constitue y a l'instant t d'un point de vue de la logique modale, de la recherche scientifique sur la fusion des atomes, de l'ontologie and de la metaphysique des parties du temps.
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The Non‐Identity of a Material Thing and Its Matter
TL;DR: The authors argue that this apparent difference in properties is the product of a linguistic illusion; there is just one thing out there, but different sorts or guises under which it may be described.
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Why a Class can't Change its Members
TL;DR: The U.S. Supreme Court is not identical to any class as mentioned in this paper, and therefore it cannot be identified with any class. But the Supreme Court does not change in membership.