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Composition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic

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dc.contributor.advisorJonathan Schaffer
dc.contributor.advisorPhillip Bricker
dc.contributor.advisorLynne Rudder Baker
dc.contributor.authorBohn, Einar
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
dc.date2023-09-22T20:26:23.000
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-26T19:55:01Z
dc.date.available2024-04-26T19:55:01Z
dc.date.issued2009-09-01
dc.description.abstractIn this work I first develop, motivate, and defend the view that mereological composition, the relation between an object and all its parts collectively, is a relation of identity. I argue that this view implies and hence can explain the logical necessity of classical mereology, the formal study of the part-whole relation. I then critically discuss four contemporary views of the same kind. Finally, I employ my thesis in a recent discussion of whether the world is fundamentally one in number.
dc.description.degreeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
dc.description.departmentPhilosophy
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7275/f4zq-r707
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14394/39315
dc.relation.urlhttps://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1089&context=open_access_dissertations&unstamped=1
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.subjectComposition
dc.subjectMereology
dc.subjectOntology
dc.subjectPhilosophical Logic
dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.titleComposition as Identity: a Study in Ontology and Philosophical Logic
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