Akalın, Atilla: Beyond Atomism and Nihilism: The Metaphysical Challenge of Gunk Ontology

_Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy_ 16 (16: Sup 1):45-55. 2026This article examines David Lewis's gunk ontology as an alternative to ontological approaches such as mereological atomism and mereological nihilism, which are significant in contemporary metaphysics. The concept of gunk, based on the principle of infinite divisibility, rejects the existence of indivisible atoms and presents a vision of a universe where every object is composed of smaller parts. Such ontological model