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title: Dividing Reality
author: Hirsch, Eli.
publisher: Oxford University Press
isbn10 | asin: 0195057546
print isbn13: 9780195057546
ebook isbn13: 9780585350851
language: English
subject Division (Philosophy)
publication date: 1993
lcc: 1993eb
ddc: 111
subject: Division (Philosophy)
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Dividing Reality
Eli Hirsch
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Oxford University Press
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and panies in
Berlin Ibadan
Copyright © 1993 by Eli Hirsch
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hirsch, Eli, 1938
Dividing reality / Eli Hirsch.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-505754-6
1. Division (Philosophy) I. Title.
1993 111dc20 92-36251
2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
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To my wife Pam
and my daughters Dena and Suzanna
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Preface
This book deals with a certain philosophical question that I call the division problem. Roughly, the question is why it seems
reasonable for us to have words that classify and individuate in ordinary ways rather than