Affiliation:
1. Dr., Research Fellow, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford Oxford UK
Abstract
Abstract
In this article, I discuss parthood status in mereologically interpreted Daoist metaphysics, based on the Daodejing. I depart from the dao and you interrelation, which mereologically overlap by sharing parts. I consider the case of a complete overlap, which (a) challenges proper parthood, according to which a part cannot be identical with the whole that it composes, and (b) entails the question of identity that, while complying with classical mereology, cannot be consistent with Daoist metaphysics. The discussion leads to abandoning proper parthood and antisymmetry axiom from classical axiomatics. It also shows a plausible further direction for mereological reconstruction.
Funder
European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
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