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Theoretical analysis evaluates the capacity of classical mereological axioms to capture composition, indicating limits in grounding part-whole relations entirely in non-mereological facts.
The axioms of Classical Mereology provide partial expression to the slogan that a whole is nothing over and above the parts. We explore the extent to which they are able to capture the thought that mereological facts supervene on non-mereological facts.
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