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Natural axioms for classical mereology

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Date
03/2019
Author
Cotnoir, Aaron
Varzi, Achille
Funder
The Leverhulme Trust
Grant ID
RF-2017-046\10
Keywords
Mereology
Boolean algebras
Axiomatics
B Philosophy (General)
BC Logic
T-NDAS
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Abstract
We present a new axiomatization of classical mereology in which the three components of the theory—ordering, composition, and decomposition principles—are neatly separated. The equivalence of our axiom system with other, more familiar systems is established by purely deductive methods, along with additional results on the relative strengths of the composition and decomposition axioms of each system.
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Cotnoir , A & Varzi , A 2019 , ' Natural axioms for classical mereology ' , The Review of Symbolic Logic , vol. 12 , no. 1 , pp. 201-208 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020318000412
Publication
The Review of Symbolic Logic
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020318000412
ISSN
1755-0203
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2018. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work will be available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020318000412
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The research and writing of this paper was supported by a 2017–2018 Leverhulme Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/16377

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