Anonymous ID: db31bc Jan. 21, 2023, 1:16 p.m. No.18195526   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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there is a philosophical stance called mereological nihilism …

 

Our everyday perceptual experience suggests that we are surrounded by macrophysical objects that have other, smaller objects as their proper parts. For example, there seem to be such objects as tables, which appear to be composed of various other objects, such as the table-legs, a flat surface, and perhaps the nails or bolts holding those pieces together. Those latter objects, in turn, appear to be composed of still smaller objects. And so on. Indeed, every putative material object our perceptual faculties are capable of representing appear to be composed of smaller parts.

 

Mereological nihilists claim that there are no composite material objects. According to mereological nihilism, there are only fundamental physical simples arranged in various spatial patterns. For example, the mereological nihilist claims that, despite appearances to the contrary, there really are no tables. There are only fundamental physical simples spatially arranged and causally interrelated in such a way as to jointly cause perceptual faculties like ours to have table-like perceptual experiences. Nihilists often abbreviate claims like this one as follows: there are fundamental physical simples arranged table-wise.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mereological_nihilism

 

 

I tend to agree with the common sense belief that tables do exists, even when they are microscopically looking mostly empty space