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Single Idea 16791
[filed under theme 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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Full Idea
There is no whole over and above the parts.
Gist of Idea
There is no whole except for the parts
Source
Aristotle (Physics [c.337 BCE], 210a16)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Basic Works of Aristotle', ed/tr. McKeon,Richard [Modern Library Classics 2001], p.273
A Reaction
Pasnau says Aristotle contradicts this at Met. 1041b12, where the syllable is more than its elements.
Related Idea
Idea 16136
A syllable is something different from its component vowels and consonants [Aristotle]
The
45 ideas
with the same theme
[the idea of summed parts as a single entity]:
13259
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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one
[Plato]
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15843
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The whole can't be the parts, because it would be all of the parts, which is the whole
[Plato]
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15844
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A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole
[Plato]
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13260
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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12878
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Wholes are continuous, rigid, uniform, similar, same kind, similar matter
[Aristotle, by Simons]
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16136
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A syllable is something different from its component vowels and consonants
[Aristotle]
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9071
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We first sense whole entities, and then move to particular parts of it
[Aristotle]
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16791
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There is no whole except for the parts
[Aristotle]
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22525
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The whole is prior to its parts, because parts are defined by their role
[Aristotle]
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13269
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In the case of a house the parts can exist without the whole, so parts are not the whole
[Aristotle]
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20826
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How is separateness possible, if separated things are always said to be united?
[Alexander on Stoic school]
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20825
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How is divisibility possible, if stoics say things remain united when they are divided?
[Alexander on Stoic school]
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20872
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Stoics say wholes are more than parts, but entirely consist of parts
[Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus]
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22744
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Parts are not parts if their whole is nothing more than the parts
[Sext.Empiricus]
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10919
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What prevents a stone from being divided into parts which are still the stone?
[Duns Scotus]
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17244
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To make a whole, parts needn't be put together, but can be united in the mind
[Hobbes]
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12887
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A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure
[Rescher/Oppenheim]
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15474
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Properly understood, wholes do no more causal work than their parts
[Martin,CB]
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11844
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If I destroy an item, I do not destroy each part of it
[Wiggins]
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10810
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I say that absolutely any things can have a mereological fusion
[Lewis]
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9667
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Mereological composition is unrestricted: any class of things has a mereological sum
[Lewis]
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13268
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There are no restrictions on composition, because they would be vague, and composition can't be vague
[Lewis, by Sider]
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10566
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Lewis prefers giving up singletons to giving up sums
[Lewis, by Fine,K]
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14244
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Lewis only uses fusions to create unities, but fusions notoriously flatten our distinctions
[Oliver/Smiley on Lewis]
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10660
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A commitment to cat-fusions is not a further commitment; it is them and they are it
[Lewis]
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15440
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A whole is distinct from its parts, but is not a further addition in ontology
[Lewis]
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15444
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Different things (a toy house and toy car) can be made of the same parts at different times
[Lewis]
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17557
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Special Composition Question: when is a thing part of something?
[Inwagen]
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13328
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Two sorts of whole have 'rigid embodiment' (timeless parts) or 'variable embodiment' (temporary parts)
[Fine,K]
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18514
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Many wholes can survive replacement of their parts
[Heil]
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18517
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Dunes depend on sand grains, but line segments depend on the whole line
[Heil]
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6154
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It is argued that wholes possess modal and counterfactual properties that parts lack
[Rowlands]
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10658
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Sameness of parts won't guarantee identity if their arrangement matters
[Varzi]
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12888
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The wholeness of a melody seems conventional, but of an explosion it seems natural
[Simons]
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13742
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There exist heaps with no integral unity, so we should accept arbitrary composites in the same way
[Schaffer,J]
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13752
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The notion of 'grounding' can explain integrated wholes in a way that mere aggregates can't
[Schaffer,J]
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6956
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At what point does an object become 'whole'?
[Westaway]
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14949
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A sum of things is not a whole if the whole does not support some new generalisation
[Ladyman/Ross]
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10665
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Leibniz's Law argues against atomism - water is wet, unlike water molecules
[Hossack]
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10682
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The fusion of five rectangles can decompose into more than five parts that are rectangles
[Hossack]
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15392
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If an object survives the loss of a part, complex objects can have autonomy over their parts
[Robb]
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13266
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Wholes in modern mereology are intended to replace sets, so they closely resemble them
[Koslicki]
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14500
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Wholes are entities distinct from their parts, and have different properties
[Koslicki]
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13281
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Wholes are not just their parts; a whole is an entity distinct from the proper parts
[Koslicki]
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18434
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That a whole is prior to its parts ('priority monism') is a view gaining in support
[Edwards]
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