A. Meirav

Wholes, Sums and Unities (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In this work, the author formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as 'Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat). More generally he suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a new way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789401702096
• Artikelnr.: 44181546

Inhaltsangabe

1 - Introduction.- One: Wholes.- 2 - Concrete Comprising Entities.- 3 - Types of Comprising Entities.- 4 - Theory and Pre-theory of Wholes.- Two: Sums.- 5 - Classical and Neoclassical Mereology.- 6 - Traditional Higher-grade Wholes as Sums.- 7 - Criticism of the Notion of a Neoclassical Sum.- 8 - Sums, Collections and All the Parts.- Three: Unities.- 9 - A Theory of Unities.- 10 - Further Elaborations and Applications.