Wholes, Sums and Unities
Author:   A. Meirav
Publisher:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Volume:   97
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Pages:   312
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
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According to Ariel Meirav, the root of some of our most noteworthy difficulties in the metaphysics of concrete entities has been the traditional tendency to focus on the horizontal dimension of wholes (i.e. relations between the parts of a whole), and to neglect the vertical dimension (i.e. relations between the whole itself and its parts). In Wholes, Sums and Unities, Meirav formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as `Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat). More generally he suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a new way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms.

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Author:   A. Meirav
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2004
Volume:   97
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.514kg
ISBN:  

9789048164424


ISBN 10:   9048164427
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   28 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 — Introduction.- One: Wholes.- 2 — Concrete Comprising Entities.- 3 — Types of Comprising Entities.- 4 — Theory and Pre-theory of Wholes.- Two: Sums.- 5 — Classical and Neoclassical Mereology.- 6 — Traditional Higher-grade Wholes as Sums.- 7 — Criticism of the Notion of a Neoclassical Sum.- 8 — Sums, Collections and All the Parts.- Three: Unities.- 9 — A Theory of Unities.- 10 — Further Elaborations and Applications.

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