“THE WHOLE IS GREATER THAN THE PART." MEREOLOGY IN EUCLID'S ELEMENTS.

The present article provides a mereological analysis of Euclid's planar geometry as presented in the first two books of his Elements. As a standard of comparison, a brief survey of the basic concepts of planar geometry formulated in a set-theoretic framework is given in Section 2. Section 3.2, then,...

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Published in:	Logic & Logical Philosophy Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 371 - 410
Main Author:	Robering, Klaus
Format:	Article
Published:	Logic & Logical Philosophy 2016
Subjects:	Whole & parts (Philosophy) Convex geometry Euclidean algorithm Mathematical continuum Measure theory
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