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Re: [jboske] individuation and masses (was: RE: mass, group,

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Subject: Re: [jboske] individuation and masses (was: RE: mass, group,
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 06:19:17 -0500 (EST)
In-reply-to: <LPBBJKMNINKHACNDIIGMKEAIHDAA.a.rosta@lycos.co.uk> from "And Rosta" at Dec 20, 2002 11:10:56 AM

And Rosta scripsit:

> Ah, an 'intrinsic boundary' is one you can see 'from the inside'
> -- the nature of the object is such that you can determine where
> it ends without looking at the world around it. 

Ah. Does the intrinsic boundary of a snail include or exclude its
shell, then?

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