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Wholes, Sums and Unities
Ariel Meirav
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hardcover. Formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a conception of wholes as 'Unities', and demonstrates the advantages of this conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles. This title suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms. Series: Philosophical Studies Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 651.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Kluwer Boston Incorporated United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Philosophical Studies Series
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402016608
SKU
V9781402016608
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