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Description: Short article by Roberto Casati of the École Polytechnique and Achille C. Varzi of Columbia.
Holes (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Thu Dec 5, 1996; substantive revision Mon Jan 5, 2009 Holes are an interesting case-study for ontologists and epistemologists. Naive, untutored descriptions of the world treat holes as objects of reference, on a par with ordinary material objects. (‘There are as many holes in the cheese as there are cookies in the tin.’) And we often appeal to holes to account for causal interactions, or to explain the occurrence of certain events. (‘The water ran out because of the hole in the bucket.’) Hence there is
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