| 11. | For a good selection of the literature on Polish mereology, see Srzednicki and Rickey ( 1984 ).
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| 12. | Since 1980 or so, however, research on Polish mereology has been almost entirely historical in nature.
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| 13. | The Goodman Leonard ( 1940 ) calculus of individuals is the starting point for the American variant of mereology.
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| 14. | The classic study of parts and wholes, mereology, has three axioms : the part-of relation is
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| 15. | Whereas set theory is founded on the membership relation between a set and its elements, mereology emphasizes the sets.
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| 16. | Mereology is a collection of nested and non-nested axiomatic systems, not unlike the case with modal logic.
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| 17. | Chisholm translated some work by Brentano and by Husserl, and contributed to the post-1970 renaissance of mereology.
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| 18. | N��ez has thought much about the foundations of real analysis, the order relations, mereology, topology, and geometry.
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| 19. | If M6 and M7 are either assumed or derivable, the result is a mereology with " closure ".
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| 20. | Relaxing the requirement that all individuals be spheres yields a formalization of mereology far easier to exposit than Lesniewski's variant.
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