Full Idea
My project is to put the notion of structure or form squarely back at the center of any adequate account of the notion of part, whole and object.
Gist of Idea
I aim to put the notion of structure or form back into the concepts of part, whole and object
Source
Kathrin Koslicki (The Structure of Objects [2008], Intro)
Book Reference
Koslicki,Kathrin: 'The Structure of Objects' [OUP 2008], p.5
A Reaction
Excellent. It is the fault of logicians, who presumably can't cope with such elusive and complex concepts, that we have ended up with objects as lists of things or properties, or quantifications over them.