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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?
It was proved by Tarski (in the 30's of the previous century) that Lesniewski's mereology determine structures which bear a very strong resemblance to complete Boolean algebras. … Every mereological structure can be transformed into complete Boolean lattice by adding zero element (its non-existence is a consequence of axioms for mereology). …
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Why hasn't mereology succeeded as an alternative to set theory?
I hope it will shed some light on mereology and its relation to set theory. … (It is worth mentioning here as well that existence of atoms is independent from the axioms of the classical mereology.) …
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