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Chisholm II 173ff
Mereological Essentialism/Simons: a thing must be founded in all its necessary parts.
Part/whole relationship: the part-whole relationship is modal rigid (Chisholm pro).
>Mereology, >Parts, >Wholes, >Part-of-relation.
Vs: most things are in flux, e.g. people, water waves.
Ens sukzessivum: for Chisholm any permanent thing ("continuant") obeys a particularly strict temporal version of mereological essentialism: if another permanent thing in any world at any time is part of it, this part has to be a part of it at all times and in all the worlds in which there exists the whole thing. Solution: entia sukzessiva: things in flux: are themselves not permanent but constituted from permanent things (continuants).
>Continuants, >Ens successivum.

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