mereological
English
Etymology
mereology + -ical
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌmɛɹɪəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Adjective
mereological (not comparable)
- (philosophy, logic) Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.
- Join is a mereological relation which can be interpreted as union set-theoretically.
- 2008 August 13, Jonathan Schaffer, “Truthmaker commitments”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, DOI: :
- I think that theories like mereological nihilism are interesting in the way that epistemological skepticism is interesting, the main question for both being how do we avoid this?
See also
Mereology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia