"You want to be Prime Minister of Pakistan?" "I want a nice, simple, arranged marriage.
The five rooms are cool, airy and simple, arranged around a courtyard with an open-air dining area; lawns are dotted with snoozing dogs and clucking hens.
Each piece operates around a strong, simple arranging idea; in his 70's, Mr. Brown is still one of the best musicians out there.
Nihilists typically accept that there are countless microscopic objects: although there are "simples arranged dogwise" and "simples arranged statuewise", there are no dogs or statues.
Consider, for example, a world that contains one-million simples arranged statuewise and nothing else.
Then, the (true) sentence 'chairs exist' is made true, not by chairs, but only by simples arranged chairwise.
Both parties agree on all of the relevant facts in particular, both parties agree that there are simples arranged statuewise.
For example, we might say that, in Lewis-English, 'statue' simply means a collection of simples arranged statuewise.
Those simples jointly occupy a statue-shaped region of space, jointly resemble the biblical king David, and jointly sit on some simples arranged tablewise.
Van Inwagen suggests that when we say, e.g., "There is a table here", what we really assert is something like: there are simples arranged tablewise here.
