Somewhere Together: Location, Parsimony and Multilocation
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Abstract
Most of the theories of location on the market appear to be ideologically parsimonious at
least in the sense that they take as primitive just one locative notion and define all the other locative
notions in terms of it. Recently, however, the possibility of some exotic metaphysical scenarios
involving gunky mixtures and extended simple regions of space has been argued to pose a significant
threat to parsimonious theories of locations. The aim of this paper is to show that a theory taking as
primitive a notion of plural pervasive location and allowing for irreducibly plural locative facts can
account for all the putatively problematic scenarios for parsimonious theories of location.
Furthermore, I will also argue that the notion of plural pervasive location is compatible with the
possibility of multilocation.
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