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Parts: a Study in Ontology

by Simons, Peter A

  • ISBN: 9780199241460
  • ISBN10: 0199241465

Parts: a Study in Ontology

by Simons, Peter A

  • Binding: Paperback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish date: 10/01/2000
  • ISBN: 9780199241460
  • ISBN10: 0199241465
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Description: The relationship of part to whole is one of the most fundamental there is, yet until now there has been no full-length study of this concept. This book shows that mereology, the formal theory of part and whole, is essential to ontology. Peter Simons surveys and criticizes previous theories, especially the standard extensional view, and proposes a more adequate account which encompasses both temporal and modal considerations in detail. This has far-reachingconsequences for our understanding of such classical philosophical concepts as identity, individual, class, substance and accident, matter, form, essence, dependence, and integral whole. It also enables theauthor to offer new solutions to long-standing problems surrounding these concepts, such as the Ship of Theseus Problem and the issue of mereological essentialism. The author shows by his use of formal techniques that classical philosophical problems are amenable to rigorous treatment, and the book represents a synthesis of issues and methods from the analytical tradition and from the older continental realist tradition of Brentano and the early Husserl.
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