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Title: Parts
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 03/08/2000
Subtitle: A Study in Ontology
ISBN-10: 0199241465
EAN: 9780199241460
ISBN: 9780199241460
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Description: 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 and accident, 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 techniques that 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Item Height: 217mm
Item Length: 138mm
Item Width: 22mm
Item Weight: 546g
Author: Peter Simons
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Type: Logic
Release Year: 2000

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