分体论 (逻辑学)

在哲学方面，分体论（英文：Mereology；该单词源自希腊语“μερος”；其中，词头“meros”意思是“部分”或者说“组成部分”，而词尾“-logy”则指的是研究、学问、讨论和科学），是指一套与组成部分及其相应整体有关的公理化一阶理论。分体论既指的是谓词逻辑的一种应用，又指的是形式本体论的一个分支。

参见

• 本体论

• Gunk
• 分體本質論
• 分體虛無主義
• Mereotopology
• Plural quantification
• Simples
• Whitehead's point-free geometry

参考文献

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• （英文） Burgess, John, and Rosen, Gideon, 1997. A Subject with No Object. Oxford Univ. Press.
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• （英文） Casati, R., and Varzi, A., 1999. Parts and Places: the structures of spatial representation. MIT Press.
• （英文） Eberle, Rolf, 1970. Nominalistic Systems. Kluwer.
• （英文） Forrest, Peter, 2002, "Nonclassical mereology and its application to sets, （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）" Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 43: 79-94.
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• （英文）Gruszczynski R., and Pietruszczak A., 2008, "Full development of Tarski's geometry of solids, （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）" Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 14:481-540. The paper presents a system of geometry based on Lesniewski's mereology. Basic properties of mereological structures are also given.
• （英文） Husserl, Edmund, 1970. Logical Investigations, Vol. 2. Findlay, J.N., trans. Routledge.
• （英文） Lewis, David K., 1991. Parts of Classes. Blackwell.
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• （英文） Leśniewski, Stanisław, 1992. Collected Works. Surma, S.J., Srzednicki, J.T., Barnett, D.I., and Rickey, V.F., editors and translators. Kluwer.
• （英文）Lucas, J. R., 2000. Conceptual Roots of Mathematics. Routledge. Chpts. 9.12 and 10 discuss mereology, mereotopology, and the related theories of A.N. Whitehead, all strongly influenced by the unpublished writings of David Bostock.
• （英文）Pietruszczak A., 1996, "" Logic and Logical Philosophy 4:105-122. The paper shows how one can, by means of mereology, construct mathematical entities which are built from set theoretical classes.
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• （英文）Potter, Michael, 2004. Set Theory and Its Philosophy. Oxford Univ. Press.
• （英文） Simons, Peter, 1987. Parts: A Study in Ontology. Oxford Univ. Press.
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• （英文） Tarski, Alfred, 1984 (1956), "Foundations of the Geometry of Solids" in his Logic, Semantics, Metamathematics: Papers 1923–38. Woodger, J., and Corcoran, J., eds. and trans. Hackett.
• （英文） Varzi, Achille C., 2007, "Spatial Reasoning and Ontology: Parts, Wholes, and Locations （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）" in Aiello, M. et al, eds., Handbook of Spatial Logics. Springer-Verlag: 945-1038.
• （英文） Whitehead, A.N., 1916, "La Theorie Relationiste de l'Espace," Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale 23: 423-454. Translated as Hurley, P.J., 1979, "The relational theory of space," Philosophy Research Archives 5: 712-741.
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外部链接

• （英文）斯坦福哲学百科全书（Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy）：
  • （英文）"Mereology （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）" – Achille Varzi.
  • （英文）"Boundary （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）" – Achille Varzi.
  • （英文）Synergy and Dysergy in Mereologic Geometries"" - Albert Carpenter