Title Statements
- Full title :Mereology : a philosophical introduction / Giorgio Lando.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781472583680, 147258368X, 9781472583673, 1472583671
- oclc:ocn984127627
- LC Classification:BD396
- Dewey Decimal:111/.82
Table of Contents
Natural language, literal parthood, and philosophical mereology -- Mereological monism: a desirable philosophical thesis -- Is mereology formal? -- Transitivity and other features -- Hyperextensionality and nominalism about structure -- What extensionalism says -- Extensionalism and concrete entities -- Extensionalism and abstract entities -- The alternatives to extensionalism -- Mereological fusion and plural logic -- The definition of fusion -- Allegedly counterintuitive entities -- The argument from vagueness -- Unrestricted composition and metaontology.
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