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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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(2003) Wholes, sums and unities, Dordrecht, Springer.

Criticism of the notion of a neoclassical sum

Ariel Meirav

pp. 167-188

Having looked at the advantages which neoclassical mereology offers as contrasted with its classical ancestor, in allowing for conditioned sums, non-unique sums, and mereologically varying sums, and in providing what might seem to be an adequate framework for accounting for traditional higher-grade notions of wholes, I now turn to consider some weaknesses of this flexible theory.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0209-6_7

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Meirav, A. (2003). Criticism of the notion of a neoclassical sum, in Wholes, sums and unities, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 167-188.

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