Full Idea
If the whole is nothing more than the sum of the parts, the parts will not be parts.
Gist of Idea
Parts are not parts if their whole is nothing more than the parts
Source
Sextus Empiricus (Against the Physicists (two books) [c.180], I.343)
Book Reference
Sextus Empiricus: 'Against the Physicists/Against the Ethicists', ed/tr. Bury,R.G. [Harvard Loeb 1997], p.167
A Reaction
Nice. Bricks lying on the ground are not parts of a wall. For them to be parts of a wall there has to be a wall which is not just the bricks. Nihilists like Van Inwagen can deny the wall in ontology, but in thought we need walls. Conceptual dependence.