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



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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