Parts and differences

Part/whole is said in many ways: the leg is part of the table, the subset is part of the set, rectangularity is part of squareness, and so on. Do the various flavors of part/whole have anything in common? They may be partial orders, but so are lots of non-mereological relations. I propose an “upward...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yablo, Stephen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103511
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9486-8323