Abstract A lump theorist claims that ordinary objects are spread out across possible worlds, much like many of us think that tables are spread out across space. We are not wholly located in any one particular world, the lump theorist claims, just as we are not wholly spatially located where one’s hand is. We are modally spread out, a trans-world mereological sum of world-bound parts. We are lump sums of modal parts. And so are all other ordinary objects. In this paper, I explore lump theory and investigate five arguments against it. These arguments may be the primary reasons why lump theory (as envisioned here) has not been widely accepted––or extensively explored––until now. I maintain that these arguments can be answered, and moreover, that accepting lump theory has distinct advantages, making it a competitive view in its own right.

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一次性付款：模态部分理论

摘要一个总的理论家声称普通物体分布在可能的世界中，就像我们许多人认为桌子分布在空间中一样。总体理论家声称，我们并不完全位于任何一个特定的世界中，就像我们并不完全位于一个人的手所在的空间上一样。我们以模态分布，这是世界约束部分的跨世界的兽性和。我们是模态部分的总和。所有其他普通对象也是如此。在本文中，我探讨了块理论，并研究了反对它的五个论点。这些论点可能是块理论（这里设想的）直到现在还没有被广泛接受（或广泛探索）的主要原因。我坚持认为，这些论点是可以回答的，而且，接受总论具有独特的优势，使其本身具有竞争性观点。