🧩 Philosophy Jun 27, 2026 · Achille Varzi

Mereology

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[Revised entry by Achille Varzi on June 27, 2026.
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Mereology (from the Greek meros, 'part') is a field of inquiry devoted to the study of parthood relations: of the relations of part to whole and the relations of part to part within a whole.[1] Its roots can be traced back to the early days of philosophy, beginning with the Presocratic disputes on the divisibility of being and continuing throughout the writings of Plato (the one and the...

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