What is mereological harmony?
Say that mereological harmony is the view that there is at least some mirroring between the mereological structure of material objects and the mereological structure of their locations: each, in some way, mirrors the other. As it turns out, there is a confusing array of systems of harmony available...
| Published in: | Synthese Vol. 193; no. 6; pp. 1949 - 1966 |
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