Mereology
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In philosophy and mathematical logic, mereology (from the Greek μέρος, root: μερε(σ)-, "part" and the suffix -logy "study, discussion, science") treats parts and the wholes they form. Whereas set theory is founded on the membership relation between a set and its elements, mereology emphasizes the meronomic relation between entities, which from a set theoretic perspective is closer to that of inclusion between sets.
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See also
- Attitude polarization
- Gunk (mereology)
- Implicate and explicate order according to David Bohm
- Mereological essentialism
- Mereological nihilism
- Mereotopology
- Monad (Greek philosophy)
- Plural quantification
- Simple (philosophy)
- Whitehead's point-free geometry
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