Full Idea
There is a difficulty about part and whole, ...whether the part and the whole are one or more than one, and in what way they can be one or many, and, if they are more than one, in what way they are more than one.
Gist of Idea
Are a part and whole one or many? Either way, what is the cause?
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 185b11), quoted by Kathrin Koslicki - The Structure of Objects 6.3
Book Reference
Koslicki,Kathrin: 'The Structure of Objects' [OUP 2008], p.125
A Reaction
He only states the problem here, but doesn't pursue it. I take the real question of mereology to be what makes a many into a one. I don't see a problem with a many being simultaneously a one.