If all the songs were sets

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This paper argues that, if we believe both in works of music and sets, that the former are the latter. My argument is that such an ontology offers more explanatory power than the alternatives when it comes to explaining why works of music fall under the predicates that they do

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On the Plurality of Worlds.David K. Lewis - 1986 - Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
What a musical work is.Jerrold Levinson - 1980 - Journal of Philosophy 77 (1):5-28.
The metaphysics of properties.Alex Oliver - 1996 - Mind 105 (417):1-80.
Monism.Jonathan Schaffer - 2008 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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