Single Idea 12844

[catalogued under 4. Formal Logic / G. Formal Mereology / 2. Terminology of Mereology]

Full Idea

Water is said not to be 'dissective', since there are parts of any quantity of water which are not water.

Gist of Idea

Dissective: stuff is dissective if parts of the stuff are always the stuff

Source

Peter Simons (Parts [1987], 4.2)

Book Reference

Simons,Peter: 'Parts: a Study in Ontology' [OUP 1987], p.139


A Reaction

This won't seem to do for any physical matter, but presumably parts of numbers are always numbers.

Related Ideas

Idea 17426 A concept creating a unit must isolate and unify what falls under it [Frege]

Idea 17437 Non-arbitrary division means that what falls under the concept cannot be divided into more of the same [Frege, by Koslicki]