Is phosphorus Hesperus?

Tobias Hansson Wahlberg

pp. 101-102

in: Axiomathes 19 (1), 2009.

Abstract

It is argued that philosophers who adopt the perdurance theory of persistence and who subscribe to the principle of Unrestricted Mereological Composition (UMC) are in a position to regard "Phosphorus is Hesperus" as false.