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Indigo

Parts by Peter Simons, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Peter Simons

Current price: $88.50
Parts by Peter Simons, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Parts by Peter Simons, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Parts by Peter Simons, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Peter Simons

Current price: $88.50
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The relationship of part to whole is one of the most fundamental there is, yet until now there has been no full-length study of this concept. This book shows that mereology, the formal theory of part and whole, is essential to ontology. Peter Simons surveys and criticizes previous theories, especially the standard extensional view, and proposes a more adequate account which encompasses both temporal and modal considerations in detail. This has far-reaching consequences for our understanding of such classical philosophical concepts as identity, individual, class, substance andaccident, matter, form, essence, dependence, and integral whole. It also enables the author to offer new solutions to long-standing problems surrounding these concepts, such as the Ship of Theseus Problem and the issue of mereological essentialism. The author shows by his use of formal techniquesthat classical philosophical problems are amenable to rigorous treatment, and the book represents a synthesis of issues and methods from the analytical tradition and from the older continental realist tradition of Brentano and the early Husserl. | Parts by Peter Simons, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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