Parts and differences
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Yablo, Stephen
Date Issued
January 2015
Journal
Philosophical Studies
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Citation
Yablo, Stephen. “Parts and Differences.” Philosophical Studies 173, no. 1 (January 21, 2015): 141–157.
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Abstract
Part/whole is said in many ways: the leg is part of the table, the subset is part of the set, rectangularity is part of squareness, and so on. Do the various flavors of part/whole have anything in common? They may be partial orders, but so are lots of non-mereological relations. I propose an “upward difference transmission” principle: x is part of y if and only if x cannot change in specified respects while y stays the same in those respects.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-014-0433-6
