Pluralities, counterparts, and groups

Philosophical Studies 179 (7):2133-2153 (2022)
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Abstract

I formulate a theory of groups based on pluralities and counterparts: roughly put, a group is a plurality of entities at a time. This theory comes with counterpart-theoretic semantics for modal and temporal sentences about groups. So this theory of groups is akin to the stage theory of material objects: both take the items they analyze to exist at a single time, and both use counterparts to satisfy certain conditions relating to the modal properties, temporal properties, and coincidence properties of those items.

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Isaac Wilhelm
National University of Singapore

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