This paper offers a critical reconstruction of the motivations that led to the development of mereology as we know it today, along with a brief description of some questions that define current research in the field
The term ‘mereology’ was coined by the twentieth-century Polish logician Stanisław Leśniewski to ind...
Our aim in this book is not simply to provide an introduction to the topic of mereology but also to ...
In Parts of Classes [Lewis 1991] David Lewis attempts to draw a sharp contrast between mereology and...
This is a brief overview of formal theories concerned with the study of the notions of (and the rela...
A compact overview of the main formal theories of parthood and of their mutual relationships, up to ...
One of the streams in the early development of set theory was an attempt to use mereology, a formal ...
How did the traditional doctrine of parts and wholes evolve into contemporary formal mereology? This...
Mereological theories are theories based on a binary predicate ‘being a part of’. It is believed tha...
We introduce the category of mereotopology Mtop as an alternative category to that of topology Top, ...
Two mereological theories are presented based on a primitive apartness relation along with binary re...
Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures ...
This essay describes and evaluates the conception of mereological structure that underpins Deleuze’s...
In Parts of Classes David Lewis attempts to draw a sharp contrast between mereology and set theory a...
Mereotopology is today regarded as a major tool for ontological analysis, and for many good reasons...
A theory of temporal mereology is formulated in which the principles of Existence and of Uniqueness ...
The term ‘mereology’ was coined by the twentieth-century Polish logician Stanisław Leśniewski to ind...
Our aim in this book is not simply to provide an introduction to the topic of mereology but also to ...
In Parts of Classes [Lewis 1991] David Lewis attempts to draw a sharp contrast between mereology and...
This is a brief overview of formal theories concerned with the study of the notions of (and the rela...
A compact overview of the main formal theories of parthood and of their mutual relationships, up to ...
One of the streams in the early development of set theory was an attempt to use mereology, a formal ...
How did the traditional doctrine of parts and wholes evolve into contemporary formal mereology? This...
Mereological theories are theories based on a binary predicate ‘being a part of’. It is believed tha...
We introduce the category of mereotopology Mtop as an alternative category to that of topology Top, ...
Two mereological theories are presented based on a primitive apartness relation along with binary re...
Ontology as a branch of philosophy is the science of what is, of the kinds and structures ...
This essay describes and evaluates the conception of mereological structure that underpins Deleuze’s...
In Parts of Classes David Lewis attempts to draw a sharp contrast between mereology and set theory a...
Mereotopology is today regarded as a major tool for ontological analysis, and for many good reasons...
A theory of temporal mereology is formulated in which the principles of Existence and of Uniqueness ...
The term ‘mereology’ was coined by the twentieth-century Polish logician Stanisław Leśniewski to ind...
Our aim in this book is not simply to provide an introduction to the topic of mereology but also to ...
In Parts of Classes [Lewis 1991] David Lewis attempts to draw a sharp contrast between mereology and...
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