ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author argues about his belief that none of the ordinary things exist, and so that the view of common sense is badly in error. He presents the putative entities with mere things, and trust that his usage of the latter term follows one common way of allowing for such a distinction. The author offers for the his negative beliefs are variations upon the sorites argument of Eubulides, that incomparable Greek genius who also disclosed the paradox of the liar, the problems of presupposition and those of intentionality. The author provides a variant upon my original sorites of decomposition, which the author call the sorites of slicing and grinding. He also presents and considers, the sorites of cutting and separating. Historically, problems concerning ordinary things, as well as those regarding sizable material objects, have often been discussed in a context concerning perception.
