mereological nihilism - 2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State

Question

One iteration of this view, existence monism, holds all of reality to be composed of a single all-encompassing entity known as the “blobject.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this eliminativist mereological view which holds that everyday items like chairs are more accurately described as simples arranged chair-wise.

ANSWER: mereological nihilism

[10e] Mereology, which studies the relationships between parts and wholes, is a subfield of this branch of philosophy which studies being.

ANSWER: ontology

[10m] Mereological nihilists’ rejection of ordinary objects is supported by the existence of sorites sequences, which are boundaries between parts and wholes described by this specific term.

ANSWER: vagueness [accept vague boundaries]

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	5.00	50%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	5.71	57%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	3	3.33	33%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	8	10.00	88%	0%	13%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	2	0.00	0%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Texas A	Central Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Texas B	Oklahoma	0	0	0	0