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Ideas of Verity Harte, by Text
[British, fl. 2002, Lecturer at King's College, London.]
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2002
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Plato on Parts and Wholes
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1.1
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p.10
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What exactly is a 'sum', and what exactly is 'composition'?
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1.1
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p.11
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If something is 'more than' the sum of its parts, is the extra thing another part, or not?
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1.1
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p.11
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15838
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The problem with the term 'sum' is that it is singular
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1.2
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p.14
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15841
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Mereology began as a nominalist revolt against the commitments of set theory
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1.6
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p.35
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15842
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An ad hominem refutation is reasonable, if it uses the opponent's assumptions
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3.1
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p.121
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15848
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Mereology treats constitution as a criterion of identity, as shown in the axiom of extensionality
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4.4
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p.252
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15858
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Traditionally, the four elements are just what persists through change
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