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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Mereology"”.
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Notes on the Mereology of *Classes
Next the project develops a mereologized class theory satisfying the following criteria: the project does not take as primitive the operation which carries a member into its singleton, it offers some insight into the ways in which members enter into classes, and it is fruitful in that it allows us …
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Deleuze and mereology: multiplicity, structure and composition
This investigation constitutes an attempt towards(1) understanding issues and problems relating to the notions of one, many, part and whole in Parmenides and Plato; (2) extracting conditions for a successful account of multiplicity and parthood;(3) surveying Deleuzian conceptions and uses of these …
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Information theory and mereology with applications to biology
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Problems in the Theory of Convergence Spaces
… of differential calculi on convergence spaces, mereology on convergence spaces, and construction of a universal homogeneous pretopological space. First, we generalize Kolmogorov separation from topological spaces to convergence spaces; we then study properties of Kolmogorov spaces. Second, we …
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Boolean-Valued Models and Their Applications
… I apply Boolean-valued models to the language of mereology to model indeterminacy in the parthood relation. I argue that Boolean-valued semantics is the best degree-theoretic semantics for the language of mereology. In particular, it trumps the well-known alternative - fuzzy-valued semantics. I …
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The Metaphysics of Mental Representation
… methodological. Using an extended analysis of mereology and its variants as paradigmatic examples of a formal ontological theory, I argue for a 'synthetic’ approach to ontology which seeks to form a sound descriptive characterisation of the relevant phenomena from empirical data, to which …
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Modal and Relevance Logics for Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
… This aspect is mathematically covered by mereology. (b) the second aspect focuses on topological nature, i.e., whether they are in ”contact” without having a common part. Mereotopology is a mathematical theory that covers these two aspects. The theoretical aspect of this thesis is to use …
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The conscious mind unified.
… parts. I begin by developing a Husserlian mereology of part-whole relations, which I apply to both an ontology of the holistic unity of the subjects of consciousness and the holistic unity of phenomenal consciousness itself. After a detailed analysis of the ontology and neuroscience of …
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Mereological Analysis of Java Programs by Using Existing Mereological Categorisations
Mereology (from the Greek μερος, ‘part’) is the theory of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole. Java is an object oriented language where every entity could be represented as an object and the presence of part to whole relations and …
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Animals now and then.
… that this is less an affront to intuition and mereology than it might seem. Second, I defend a hylomorphic variety of animalism from the objection that if it is true, we are not the primary thinkers of our thoughts. The criticism is that if hylomorphism can solve certain puzzles (for example, …
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On the Plurality of Existences
… by exploring its connection to truth (§2), mereology (§3), and time (§4).</p> <p>In §1, I consider the merits of jointly endorsing Meinongianism and Ontological Pluralism. With the aim of showing that the two views complement one another, Iargue that such a meta-ontology can have tremendous …
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Exploring the Metaphysics of Grief
… to explain grief utterances' truth. Classical mereology cannot provide an account of grief utterances without forsaking its core axioms. Accounts of grief utterances that appeal to an individual's temporal or modal parts will violate the Intimacy Constraint. An appeal to the extended mind is …
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Exploring The Metaphysics Of Grief
… to explain grief utterances’ truth. Classical mereology cannot provide an account of grief utterances without forsaking its core axioms. Accounts of grief utterances that appeal to an individual’s temporal or modal parts will violate the Intimacy Constraint. An appeal to the extended mind is …
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Combining Minds: A Defence of the Possibility of Experiential Combination
This thesis explores the possibility of composite consciousness: phenomenally conscious states belonging to a composite being in virtue of the consciousness of, and relations among, its parts. We have no trouble accepting that a composite being has physical properties entirely in virtue of the …
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From Conflict to Unity: Plato on Well-Ordered Wholes
Recent literature has shown an increasing interest in issues pertaining to the theme of ‘parts and wholes’ in Plato. One classic example is Verity Harte’s 2002 monograph Plato on Parts and Wholes: The Metaphysics of Structure (OUP), which revisits the mereological question of what constitutes a …
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Amount Superlatives and Measure Phrases
<p>This dissertation provides a novel analysis of quantity superlatives by bringing together research on three interrelated topics: superlative ambiguity, semantic constraints on measure constructions, and the internal structure of the extended nominal phrase. I analyze the quantity words, …
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SISTEMI, STRUTTURE, SFORZI, MOTI. L¿ANALOGIA TRA SCIENZE FISICO-MATEMATICHE E SCIENZE CIVILI NELLA FILOSOFIA DI G.W. LEIBNIZ
The research aims at tracing underlying connections, in Leibniz’s writings, between ethical, legal and political science – on the one side –, and physics, mechanics, biology, and his later dynamics – on the other. More clearly: this research undertakes to fully uncover existing convergences and …