GoKawiilStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy updates 'Holes' entry, revised May 2025
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's long-running entry on the metaphysics of holes, first published in 1996, has received a substantive revision dated May 12, 2025. The entry examines whether holes qualify as real entities or are merely linguistic fictions, drawing on evidence from ordinary language, causal reasoning, and cognitive science studies on how infants and adults perceive and track holes.