-
there are no
objects with
proper parts. Equivalently,
mereological nihilism says that
mereological simples, or
objects without any
proper parts, are the...
- In philosophy,
mereological essentialism is a
mereological thesis about the
relationship between wholes,
their parts, and the
conditions of
their persistence...
- with the
benefit of hindsight, as
mereological in essence. This work
culminated in
Whitehead (1916) and the
mereological systems of
Whitehead (1919, 1920)...
-
Mereological Fallacy.
Philosophy 87:3, July 2012, pp. 329-352. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819112000241 P.M.S. Hacker. 2013.
Before the
Mereological...
- tree
might be tree (an oak tree is a type of tree). Has-a
Hyponymy and
hypernymy Is-a
Mereological essentialism Mereological nihilism Synecdoche v t e...
- Pxy\rightarrow Exy.} C3
nicely connects mereological parthood to
topological enclosure. Let O, the
binary relation of
mereological overlap, be
defined as: O x y...
- p {\displaystyle p} is a
mereological part
structure on U {\displaystyle U} with < p {\displaystyle <_{p}} the
mereological part-of relation: ( ∀ F ⊆...
-
exist (§ Metaphysical nihilism), that
composite objects do not
exist (§
Mereological nihilism), or even that life
itself does not exist. The etymological...
-
universe of discourse, p is a
mereological part
structure on U, and ⊕ p {\displaystyle \oplus _{p}} is the
mereological sum operation. ( ∀ X ⊆ U p ) (...
- Chisholm's
mereological essentialism may lead him to
agree that this is the
original Ship of Theseus. However, Chisholm's
mereological essentialism...
