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mereology: parts and wholes  

Definition

  • The relationship of part to whole is familiar and universal. Like the relationship between a house and its front door, an elephant and its trunk, and Beethoven's Eroica and its first chord, we find part-whole relations all around and grasp the notion intuitively from infancy. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Mereology: Parts and Wholes]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-T62N0P2F-7

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