id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt mp48sb41m1q Andrew Brenner A Defense of Mereological Nihilism 1904 .txt text/plain 333 17 39 Two of the objections I consider are deflationary, in the sense that they contend that the debate over the existence of composite objects is merely verbal, or trivially easy to settle via conceptual analysis in conjunction with basic empirical investigation. I go on to consider whether science gives us compelling reasons to believe in composite objects. cache/mp48sb41m1q.txt txt/mp48sb41m1q.txt