Lexicon of Arguments

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I 107
Non-transitivity/part-relation/Rescher/Simons: non-transitive: e.g. a nucleus is not part of the organ, but rather part of the cell, e.g. a door handle is not part of the house, but rather part of the door and this part of the house. Vs: there is a sense of "part" in which this is false: namely, the spatio-temporal containment ("broad concept"). Then the nucleus is also part of the organ.
Part-relation/function/Simons: a causal or functional contribution cannot be an aspect of the part-relation. It is always outside.
>Function, >Causal relation, >Parts, >Wholes.
Even if transitivity was restored by a "contribution to the functioning": "function" is not part of the narrower concept of "part".
The broader concept of "part" is spatiotemporal containment.

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