Cowritten with his wife, Stephanie Lewis, this whimsical dialogue features Argle and Bargle debating the ontological nature of holes. Argle ingeniously defends the claim that a hole is just the lining of matter that surrounds it. Responding to Bargle's disinclination toward accepting a view that flouts common sense, Argle comments that philosophical argument involves “measuring [the] price” that one must pay in order to accept the contested position. It is a telling remark, given the “incredulous stares” that often greet Lewis's modal realism.
Keywords: holes, Stephanie Lewis, mereology, metaphysics, ontology