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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?
Unlike category theory which is in many ways a freer framework in which to do mathematics and which very nicely captures universal objects and constructions (e.g., limits and colimits), mereology is a … The whole/part relation can be captured by set/subset, but set/member cannot simply be recaptured in mereology. …
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