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In his early book Reality, Paul Weiss says interesting and important things. Some remarks however, besides being interesting and important, require further examination. The following quotation is a case in point.
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Though even here we see how relative to context is deciding whether or not things have the same, or different co-ordinates. Radical atomism is the theory which reduces people to constellations of co-ordinates such that no two atoms can have the same co-ordinates. Other philosophical “isms” use their co-ordinates differently; their objectives are different.
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Hanson, N.R. (2020). On Being in Two Places at Once. In: Lund, M.D. (eds) What I Do Not Believe, and Other Essays. Synthese Library, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1739-5_9
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