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mereology Contents Preface | Sources | Why mereology? | Introduction | Formal mereologies | Issue of oneness | Natural mereologies | Significance for the way of being Natural mereology PrefaceA natural mereology is one in which the oneness of the whole is immanent in the parts as selected. The result is that there is no need for a oneness as another part over and above the explicit parts. Natural mereology is important in that imposed one-nesses are contradictory or at least dialethic. ‘Natural mereology’ is currently a stem of a document and very much in process. The following is a tentative outline. SourcesMereology (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Why mereology?Two perspectives, (i) general (ii) for the way of being. IntroductionWhat it is. History of mereology. Problems—what are parts, what constitutes a whole? Formal mereologiesIssue of onenessNatural mereologiesSee dialetheia.html., especially the sections, ‘Mereology’ and ‘Is reality contradictory?’ Significance for the way of being |