====== Holes ======

For many philosophers, the scholarly debate around holes began in earnest in 1970, with //Lewis// and //Lewis’s// now  [[http://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil375/Lewis1.pdf|classic article]] for the //Australasian Journal of Philosophy// (48: 206–212.)

The authors presented their paper in a highly unusual format - that of an imaginary discussion between two philosophers, called // Argle// and //Bargle//, who are pondering the holes in a piece of Gruyère cheese.

//Argle// believes that every hole has a hole-lining, and therefore the hole-lining //is// the hole. On the other hand, //Bargle// points out that even if hole-linings surround holes, things don’t surround themselves.

The answers are still not clearcut, but since the 1970’s the philosophical debate around holes has continued and expanded considerably, and there is a suggestion that they could perhaps be categorised as a subsection of //'Almost Nothings'// which also  include //cracks// and //shadows//. See:[[https://web.archive.org/web/20170318143025/http://krmcdani.mysite.syr.edu/BAANWEB.pdf|‘Being and Almost Nothingness’]] <sup>[archived]</sup> in the journal //Noûs//, Volume 44, Issue 4, pages 628–649, December 2010.

Further reading :

  * [[https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/|Holes]] at the //Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy//

  * //'Where Argle and Bargle got things wrong'//, by  [[http://www.columbia.edu/~av72/papers/AJP_2004.pdf|Cargle and Dargle]] //Australasian Journal of Philosophy,// 82:1 (2004), 23–2.

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Also see : [[content:psychology:disorders:trypophobia]] (fear of holes).