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Parts of Classes

By David K. Lewis

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
1991
ISBN
063117656X, 9780631176565
LCC
QA248
Open Library ID
OL21575976M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2106049 bytes)
Pages
168\82
Time added
2014-10-05 02:30:00

Description

Does the notion of part and whole have any application to classes? Lewis argues that it does, and that the smallest parts of any class are its one-membered "singleton" subclasses. That results in a reconception of set theory. The set-theoretical making of one out of many is just the composition of one whole out of many parts. But first, one singleton must be made out of its one member - this is the distinctively set-theoretical primitive operation. Thus set theory is entangled, with mereology: the theory of parts and wholes.

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