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Mereology (from Gr**** μέρος 'part' (root: μερε-, mere-, 'part') and the
suffix -logy, 'study, discussion, science') is the
philosophical study of part-whole...
- 1998) was an
American philosopher,
known for his work on counterfactuals,
mereology, the
problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics.
Goodman was born...
- This is a
glossary of
mereology.
Mereology is the
philosophical study of part-whole relationships, also
called parthood relationships. Contents: A B C...
- In
mereology, an area of metaphysics, the term gunk
applies to any
whole whose parts all have
further proper parts. That is, a
gunky object is not made...
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collections of
objects are to be
considered parts composing a whole.
Mereology, the
study of
relationships between parts and
their wholes,
provides specifications...
- set theory. They can be
easily adapted to
analogous theories, such as
mereology.
Axiom of
extensionality Axiom of
empty set
Axiom of
pairing Axiom of...
- (ónuma) 'name') is the
converse of meronymy. A
closely related concept is that of
mereology,
which specifically deals with part–whole
relations and is used in logic...
- In philosophy,
specifically metaphysics,
mereology is the
study of
parthood relationships. In
mathematics and
formal logic,
wellfoundedness prohibits...
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defended nominalism.
Polish philosopher Stanisław Leśniewski
coined the term
mereology meaning the
formal study of
parts and wholes, a
subject which arguably...
- to
which he gave the Gr****-derived
names of protothetic, ontology, and
mereology. ("Calculus of names" is
sometimes used
instead of ontology, a term widely...
