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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 Missing Information?
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