Full Idea
At what point does an object become 'whole'?
Gist of Idea
At what point does an object become 'whole'?
Source
Luke Westaway (talk [2005]), quoted by PG - Db (ideas)
A Reaction
This nice question strikes me as the central one in mereology. It is tempting to reply that the matter is entirely conventional, but there seems an obvious fact about something missing if one piece is absent from a jigsaw, or a cube is chipped.