Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries¶
Smith, & Varzi. (2000). Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
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- Holes, boundaries, rooms, gaps, jurisdictions, easements, and ecological zones are the canonical cases: a hole in a metal plate exists wherever the metal is absent, individuated by the rim that surrounds it; a room is defined by the enclosing walls and the opening of its doorway, not by any substance filling it; a national border is a geodesic line individuated by the treaty or convention that specifies its position relative to material reference points
This sourceSmith and Varzi's account of national borders as fiat outer boundaries, individuated by human demarcation rather than by any physical discontinuity in the territory.
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“National borders, by contrast, as well as county- and property-lines and the borders of postal and electoral districts, provide examples of outer boundaries of the fiat sort”
- Holes, boundaries, rooms, gaps, jurisdictions, easements, and ecological zones are the canonical cases: a hole in a metal plate exists wherever the metal is absent, individuated by the rim that surrounds it; a room is defined by the enclosing walls and the opening of its doorway, not by any substance filling it; a national border is a geodesic line individuated by the treaty or convention that specifies its position relative to material reference points
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