Pieces of a Theory

Barry Smith; Kevin Mulligan

Pieces of a Theory

In Parts and Moments: Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology. Munich: Philosophia Verlag. pp. 15-109 (1982)

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A survey of theories of part, whole and dependence from Aristotle to the Gestalt psychologists, with special attention to Husserl’s Third Logical Investigation “On the Theory of Parts and Wholes”.

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dependence relations perceptual complexity formal ontology

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Aristotle: Metaphysics in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy

Asymmetric-Dependence Accounts of Mental Content in Philosophy of Mind

Husserl: Ontology in Continental Philosophy

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