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Wholes, Sums and Unities - Couverture rigide

Livre 98 sur 134: Philosophical Studies

Meirav, A.

 
9781402016608: Wholes, Sums and Unities
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1402016603 ISBN 13 : 9781402016608
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1402016603
ISBN 13 
9781402016608
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
320
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