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Ideas for Herodotus, Anil Gupta and Theodore Sider

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4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 1. Mereology

15004	'Gunk' is an object in which proper parts all endlessly have further proper parts [Sider]
	Full Idea: An object is 'gunky' if each of its parts has further proper parts; thus gunk involves infinite descent in the part-whole relation.
	From: Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 07.11.2)

4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 3. Axioms of Mereology

14984	Which should be primitive in mereology - part, or overlap? [Sider]
	Full Idea: Should our fundamental theory of part and whole take 'part' or 'overlap' as primitive?
	From: Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 02.3)