On the Role of Supplementation Principles in Mereology

Aaron Cotnoir (St. Andrews) gives a talk at the MCMP Colloquium (4 February, 2016) titled "On the Role of Supplementation Principles in Mereology". Abstract: Mereology is the formal theory of parts and wholes. Despite the frequent claim that a certain class of `supplementation' principles are analytically true of the concept of parthood, students of mereology often find such principles tricky to understand. This is made more complicated by the supposed relation between supplementation and mereological extensionality. In this paper, I outline the algebraic role of supplementation and argue that, contrary to received opinion, extensionalists and non-extensionalist alike should accept them.

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