Concept information
Preferred term
mereology: parts and wholes
Definition
- The relationship of part to whole is familiar and universal. Like the relationship between a house and its front door, an elephant and its trunk, and Beethoven's Eroica and its first chord, we find part-whole relations all around and grasp the notion intuitively from infancy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Mereology: Parts and Wholes]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/mereology:_parts_and_wholes
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