Parts and differences

• Autores: Stephen Yablo
• Localización: Philosophical Studies, ISSN-e 1573-0883, Vol. 173, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 141-157
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 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.