- it is a
contingent fact that
there is
something rather than nothing.
Mereological nihilism ****erts that
there are only
simple objects, like elementary...
-
there are no
objects with
proper parts. Equivalently,
mereological nihilism says that
mereological simples, or
objects without any
proper parts, are the...
-
objects are
identical to
mereological sums (also
called fusions) of
their parts. A
metaphysical thesis called "
mereological monism"
suggests that the...
- In philosophy,
mereological essentialism is a
mereological thesis about the
relationship between wholes,
their parts, and the
conditions of
their persistence...
-
Mereological Fallacy.
Philosophy 87:3, July 2012, pp. 329-352. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819112000241 P.M.S. Hacker. 2013.
Before the
Mereological...
- 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...
-
parts determine that they form a whole?
Mereological nihilism is an
extreme eliminative position.
Mereological nihilism denies that any
objects actually...
- Chisholm's
mereological essentialism may lead him to
agree that this is the
original Ship of Theseus. However, Chisholm's
mereological essentialism...
- the
question of
which droplets form part of the cloud.
According to
mereological universalists,
every collection of
entities forms a whole. This means...
- 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...
