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9806 | Whatever is made up of parts is made up of parts of those parts [Mill] |
Full Idea: Whatever is made up of parts is made up of parts of those parts. | |
From: John Stuart Mill (System of Logic [1843], 3.24.5) | |
A reaction: Mill considers this principle to be fundamental to the possibilities of arithmetic. Presumably he thought of it as an inductive inference from our dealings with physical objects. |