mereological en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌmɪəɹiəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Etymology
Etymology tree English mereology Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ic Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ical English -ical English mereological From mereology + -ical.
Meanings
-
(not-comparable) Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.
I think that theories like mereological nihilism are interesting in the way that epistemological skepticism is interesting, the main question for both being how do we avoid this?
2008 August 13, Jonathan Schaffer, “Truthmaker commitments”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:Join is a mereological relation which can be interpreted as union set-theoretically.