Parts, Wholes, and Part-Whole Relations: The Prospects of Mereotopology Export

@misc{citeulike:530886, abstract = {INTRODUCTION This is a brief overview of formal theories concerned with the study of the notions of (and the relations between) parts and wholes. The guiding idea is that we can distinguish between a theory of parthood (mereology) and a theory of wholeness (holology, which is essentially afforded by topology), and the main question examined is how these two theories can be combined to obtain a unified theory of parts and wholes. We examine various non-equivalent ways of pursuing this task,...}, author = {Varzi, A.}, citeulike-article-id = {530886}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7596}, keywords = {mereology}, posted-at = {2006-03-04 16:51:51}, priority = {2}, title = {Parts, Wholes, and Part-Whole Relations: The Prospects of Mereotopology}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.41.7596} }

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