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Mereotopology — In formal ontology, a branch of metaphysics, and in ontological computer science, mereotopology is a first order theory, embodying mereological and topological concepts, of the relations among wholes, parts, parts of parts, and the boundaries… … Wikipedia
Mereology — In philosophy and mathematical logic, mereology (from the Greek μέρος, root: μερε(σ) , part and the suffix logy study, discussion, science ) treats parts and the wholes they form. Whereas set theory is founded on the membership relation between a … Wikipedia
Whitehead's point-free geometry — In mathematics, point free geometry is a geometry whose primitive ontological notion is region rather than point. Two axiomatic systems are set out below, one grounded in mereology, the other in mereotopology and known as connection theory… … Wikipedia
Mereotopologie — Die Mereotopologie ist eine formale Theorie, die Mereologie und Topologie miteinander verbindet. Sie untersucht die topologischen Beziehungen zwischen Ganzheiten, Teilen und den Rändern der Teile. Obgleich die Theorie im Wesentlichen mathematisch … Deutsch Wikipedia
Process and Reality — In philosophy, especially metaphysics, the book Process and Reality , by Alfred North Whitehead, sets out its author s philosophy of organism, also called process philosophy. The book, published in 1929, is a revision of the Gifford Lectures he… … Wikipedia
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Laws of Form — (hereinafter LoF ) is a book by G. Spencer Brown, published in 1969, that straddles the boundary between mathematics and of philosophy. LoF describes three distinct logical systems: * The primary arithmetic (described in Chapter 4), whose models… … Wikipedia
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