Getting Stuffy in Here: the Problem of Coincident Objects

Gnosis 10 (2) (2011)
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I argue that the coincidence of statue and matter is a special case of a common linguistic phenomenon: the use of partitive terms to individuate uses of non-count nouns (NCNs). By marking partitives and NCNs, we can easily account for the intuition that a statue and its matter are identical.

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