Title: Partial identity and mereotopology Abstract: How should we think about the ways in which identity and parthood interact? One important line of thought comes...

Aesthetic assertion, aesthetic knowledge, and acquaintance inference Simple aesthetic sentences normally give rise to an acquaintance inference (AI), inferences that the speaker has first-hand knowledge...

Abstract: We routinely ascribe belief and knowledge to groups, saying such things as that the government knew that the new strain of covid was especially transmissible,...