Mereology a philosophical introduction
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...
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2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Part I: The Methodology of Mereological Monism 1. Natural Language, Literal Parthood, and Philosophical Mereology 2. Mereological Monism: A Desirable Philosophical Thesis 3. Is Mereology Formal? 4. Transitivity and Other Features Part II: Extensionalism 5. Hyperextensionality and Nominalism about Structure 6. What Extensionalism Says 7. Extensionalism and Concrete Entities 8. Extensionalism and Abstract Entities 9. The Alternatives to Extensionalism Part III: Unrestricted Composition 10. Mereological Fusion and Plural Logic 11. The Definition of Fusion 12. Allegedly Counterintuitive Entities 13. The Argument from Vagueness 14. Unrestricted Composition and Metaontology Appendix: Mereological Monism, Without Composition as Identity References Index
