Single Idea 13258

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 1. Mereology]

Full Idea

The 'aggregative' objection to classical extensional mereology is that it assigns simply the wrong, set-like conditions of existence and spatio-temporal location to ordinary material objects.

Gist of Idea

The 'aggregative' objections says mereology gets existence and location of objects wrong

Source

Kathrin Koslicki (The Structure of Objects [2008], 5.1)

Book Reference

Koslicki,Kathrin: 'The Structure of Objects' [OUP 2008], p.93


A Reaction

[She attributes this to Kit Fine] The point is that there is more to a whole than just some parts, otherwise you could scatter the parts across the globe (or even across time) and claim that the object still existed. It's obvious really.