Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic
In this work I first develop, motivate, and defend the view that mereological composition, the relation between an object and all its parts collectively, is a relation of identity. I argue that this view implies and hence can explain the logical necessity of classical mereology, the formal study of...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2009
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/92 https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=open_access_dissertations |