Mereology then and now
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2015.024Keywords
mereology, parthood, formal ontology, foundations of mathematicsAbstract
This paper offers a critical reconstruction of the motivations that led to the development of mereology as we know it today, along with a brief description of some questions that define current research in the field.References
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