mereology

In philosophy, the study of the relationship between parts and wholes is known as mereology, and chemical interactions present fascinating ways of testing some such theories.

Berto: Philosophy Monkey 2010

In general, mereology is a theory of sets in the collective (mereological) sense, contrary to ordinary set theory, which describes sets in the distributive sense.

Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009

Perhaps there is no room for indeterminacy in the idealized mereology of space and time as such; but when it comes to the mereology of ordinary spatio-temporal particulars (for instance) the picture looks different.

Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

Ditto for ˜PE™, which was in fact the primitive relation in Whitehead's (1919) semi-formal treatment of the mereology of events (and which is just the converse of ˜PP™).

Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

This is, for example, van Inwagen's (1990) view of the matter, which results in a fuzzification of parthood that parallels in many ways to the fuzzification of membership in Zadeh's (1965) set theory, and it is this sort of intuition that also led to the development of such formal theories as Polkowsky and Skowron's (1994) “rough mereology” or Smith's (2005) theory of

Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

While vision's objects possess a spatial mereology and are individuated and tracked in terms of spatial features, audition's objects have a temporal mereology and are individuated and tracked in terms of both pitch and temporal characteristics.

Auditory Perception O'Callaghan, Casey 2009

Third, and most importantly, note that extensionality is a theorem in standard systems of mereology, the logic of parts and wholes (for more, see the entry on mereology).

Material Constitution Wasserman, Ryan 2009

In fact, he invented mereology when he tried to solved the Russell paradox.

Lvov-Warsaw School Wole&324;ski, Jan 2009

There are various problems with this response (see Wasserman 2002), but the most obvious worry is that this reply is inconsistent with another standard axiom of mereology, known as strong supplementation:

Material Constitution Wasserman, Ryan 2009

As Unger originally states it, the puzzle relies on a contentious principle of mereology.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009