Strange Parts: The Metaphysics of Non-classical Mereologies.
The dominant theory of parts and wholes - classical extensional mereology - has faced a number of challenges in the recent literature. This article gives a sampling of some of the alleged counterexamples to some of the more controversial principles involving the connections between parthood and iden...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy Compass Vol. 8; no. 9; pp. 834 - 846 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2013
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