Natural axioms for mereology
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.
Citation
Cotnoir , A & Varzi , A 2018 , ' Natural axioms for mereology ' The Review of Symbolic Logic , vol. In press .
Publication
The Review of Symbolic Logic
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
1755-0203Type
Journal article
Rights
© 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://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/review-of-symbolic-logic
Description
The research and writing of this paper was supported by a 2017–2018 Leverhulme Research Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.Collections
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