Ordinary Parts and Their Complements: Together They Rise, Together They Fall

A recent solution to the Body-Minus problem, which is a problem of material constitution, claims that ordinary proper parts (such as left feet) exist, but the complements of these objects (such as left-foot complements) do not exist. In this paper, I examine a defense of this solution from the worry of arbitrariness and from its ineffectiveness against a revised version of the problem that focuses on the head, and I show that this defense fails.

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This paper examines a defense of a recent solution to the Body-Minus problem, focusing on the worries of arbitrariness and its ineffectiveness against a revised version of the problem.