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Parts (A study on ontology)
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
34,56€
- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199241460
- ISBN10 0199241465
- Type Book
- Pages 390
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Rustic
Parts (A study on ontology)
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"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 traditional of Brentano and the early Husserl."--BOOK JACKET.- Publisher OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780199241460
- ISBN10 0199241465
- Type Book
- Pages 390
- Published 2000
- Bookbinding Rustic