TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lando, Giorgio
AU  - Lando,Giorgio
TI  - Mereology:  A Philosophical Introduction
SN  - 9781350094734
U1  - N20 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - Whole and Parts
N1  - includes index and biblioraphy; What is Mereology? ..........1  1. The methodology of Mereological Monism    Natural Language, Literal Parthood, and Philosophical Mereology ..........17  Mereological monism : A desirable philosophical Thesis ..................31  Is mereology formal ....................39  Transitivity and other Features ..........47  2. Extensionalism   Hyperextensionality and Nominalism about Structure ...........67  Mereological Monism and Nominalism ...............69  Goodman on Hyperextensionality .................71  Hyperextensionality, sets, wholes .............72  Goodman`s Approach, Atomism , Gunk .......73  Is goodman`s Approach circular...........77  Fine`s Principles of Obliteration ..........78  6. What extensionalism says ..........85  7. Extensionalism and Concrete Entities ..........93  8. Extensionalism and Abstract Entities ..........117  9. The Aulternatives to Extensionalism ...........135  3. Unrestricted Composition   Mereological Fusion and Plural Logic ............149  11. The Definition of Fusion ............163  12. Allegedly countrintuitive entities ............169  13.The Argument from Vagueness..........175  14. Unrestricted composition and Metaontology ..............193
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