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

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

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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.

Parthood and composition are everywhere. 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 the Early Middle Ages, High Middle Ages, and Late Middle Ages.

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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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.

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

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.

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.