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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?

, even if the word 'mereology' is almost never invoked as far as I know. … In 'mereology' we want to think of a set as consisting of its parts (subsets). The categorical form of mereology would complete the analogy elements: functions :: parts: ?? …
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