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Atomic Mereology, Gunk Mereology, Mereology with Bottom, General Extensional Mereology, Mereology and Set Theory, Mereotopology, Boundaries, Grounding point free Geometry, Lewis's Mereology, philosophy of Mereology
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Why hasn't mereology succeeded as an alternative to set theory?
So my questions are: how is it that mereology had no success as a possible foundation for mathematics? … Are axiomatizations based on mereology not suitable for most developments or simply not worth the while? If so, which would be the technical reason behind? …
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