Mereology: A Philosophi...
Mereology: A Philosophi...
Mereology: A Philosophi...
5. Concluding remarks. Medieval philosophers study a variety of wholes and parts, and they often do so with a remarkable degree of sophistication. To be sure, some aspects of medieval mereology are idiosyncratic, but many of the puzzles that medieval philosophers wrestle with are recognizably perennial.
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Parthood and composition are everywhere. The leg of a table is part of the table, the word "Christmas" is part of the sentence "I wish you a merr
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Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction 1st Edition is written by Giorgio Lando and published by Bloomsbury Academic. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction are 9781472583680, 147258368X and the print ISBNs are 9781350094734, 1350094730. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource.
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The first is concerned with the study of ordinary concepts and ordinary metaphysical terminology, from the standpoint of ordinary language. From this point of view, we can see mereology as trying to define and formalize the ordinary notions of part and whole. Revisionary metaphysics, instead, tries to say how reality is really made.
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In mereology, an area of philosophical logic, the term gunk applies to any whole whose parts all have further proper parts. That is, a gunky object is not made of indivisible atoms or simples. Because parthood is transitive, any part of gunk is itself gunk.
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Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction addresses the multifaceted and lively philosophical debates surrounding these questions, and defends the idea that classical mereology is indeed the general and exhaustive theory of parthood and composition in the domain of concrete entities. Several examples of parthood and composition, involving
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A. J. Cotnoir and Achille C. Varzi. Explains and clarifies a variety of formal systems of mereology. Contributes to the development and systematization of new mereological theories, with an eye on their potential impact on debates throughout philosophy. Written for both experts and newcomers alike; the text is self-contained, detailed, concise
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Are its seemingly counter-intuitive features serious defects?Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction addresses the multifaceted and lively philosophical debates surrounding these questions, and defends the idea that classical mereology is indeed the general and exhaustive theory of parthood and composition in the domain of concrete entities.Several examples of parthood and composition, involving entities of different kinds, are scrutinised in depth.
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Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction - Giorgio Lando - ISBN: 9781350094734. Parthood and composition are everywhere. The leg of a table is part of the table, the word Christmas is part of the sentence I wish you a merry Christmas, the 13th century is part of the Middle Ages. The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg compose Benelux, the body of a deer is composed of a huge
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Dec 27, · Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction addresses the multifaceted and lively philosophical debates surrounding these questions, and defends the idea that classical mereology is indeed the general and exhaustive theory of parthood and composition in the domain of concrete entities.
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Sep 22, · A. J. Cotnoir and Achille C. Varzi. Explains and clarifies a variety of formal systems of mereology. Contributes to the development and systematization of new mereological
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Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction - Ebook written by Giorgio Lando. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction.
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Incidentally, mereology is shown to interact in a surprising way with metaontology. Presenting a well-organized and comprehensive discussion of parthood and related notions, Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction contributes to a better understanding of a subject central to contemporary metaphysics.
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One main aim of these logics is to capture the ways in which the mereological properties of and relations between located entities must mirror the mereological properties of and relations between the locations of those entities.
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Parthood and composition are everywhere. The leg of a table is part of the table, the word Christmas is part of the sentence I wish you a merry Christmas, the 13th century is part of the Middle Ages. The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg compose Benelux, the body of a deer is composed of a huge number of cells, the Middle Ages are composed of
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Notes to Mereology 1. The term was coined in 1927 by Leśniewski (see below), probably as a variant of the term ‘merology’ originally used to indicate the field of anatomy concerned with body fluids and elementary tissues; see Simons (1997: n. 4).
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Answer (1 of 3): One should be a mereologist in philosophy because it is the study of part-relations. One can use mereology to better understand the concepts of necessary and sufficient conditions and parts of a whole. This is very enlightening in understanding how
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Natural Mereology and Classical Mereology; P. Hovda.- Part III. Natural Sciences.- Introduction to Part III: Mereology and Natural Science.- Crisp islands in vague seas. Mathematics, Philosophy. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Shipping and handling. Item location: Jessup, Maryland, United States.
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive. Summer 2022 Edition. Menu . Browse. Table of Contents; New in this Archive; Chronological; Archives ; About. Editorial Information; About the SEP; Editorial Board; Mereology. First published Tue May 13, 2003; substantive revision Sat Feb 13,
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Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction. Giorgio Lando, Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction, Bloomsbury, , 237pp., $114.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781472583666. Reviewed by Kris McDaniel, Syracuse University. 2018.10.23. This book has two aims. First, it aims to be an introduction to some of the most important issues in the metaphysics of parts and wholes.
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Oct 23, · Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction. Giorgio Lando, Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction, Bloomsbury, , 237pp., $114.00 (hbk), ISBN 9781472583666.
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Mereology Paul R. Daniels. in Philosophy Philosophy; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art; Epistemology; Feminist Philosophy; History of Western Philosophy; Metaphysics; Moral Philosophy; Non-Western Philosophy; Philosophy of Language; Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic;
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Mereology is the theory of the part–whole relation and of derived operations such as the mereological sum. (The sum of several things is the smallest thing of which they are all parts.) It was introduced by Leśniewski to avoid Russell ’s paradox. Unlike the set-membership relation, the part–whole relation is transitive.
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Jun 29, · Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction addresses the multifaceted and lively philosophical debates surrounding these questions, and defends the idea that classical
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Incidentally, mereology is shown to interact in a surprising way with metaontology. Presenting a well-organized and comprehensive discussion of parthood and related notions, Mereology: A Philosophical Introduction contributes to a better understanding of a subject central to contemporary metaphysics.
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Jun 01, · The extensionality principle of mereology is a consequence of the axiom for the uniqueness of (mereological) composition and it states, roughly, that numerically distinct wholes cannot have exactly the same proper parts.
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Mereology concerns part-whole relations, which is to say that mereological discussions focus on (1) the relation between the parts of a whole and the whole of which they're a part, and (2) the relations between the parts within a whole. But mereological discussions extend beyond mere articulation of mereological axioms.
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