On the Mereological Structure of Complex States of Affairs
Synthese, DOI 10.1007/S11229-010-9828-X 187 (2):403-418 (2012)
| Abstract | The aim of this paper is to elucidate the mereological structure of complex states of affairs without relying on the problematic notion of structural universals. For this task tools from graph theory, lattice theory, and the theory of relational systems are employed. Our starting point is the mereology of similarity structures. Since similarity structures are structured sets, their mereology can be considered as a generalization of the mereology of sets ... | |||||||||
| Keywords | Structural Mereology Complex States of Affairs Similarity Structures Graphs | |||||||||
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