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| Hartry Field - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
| Hartry Field (1946), American philosopher. His major works include Science Without Numbers (1980), Realism, Mathematics and Modality (1989), and Truth and the Absence of Fact (2001). His fields of specialization are philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of science, epistemology, and metaphysics.
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| Part-of-Relation, Part-Relation, philosophy: the relations that exist between parts of an assumed whole and this whole, but not between the parts among themselves. For the part-relation there are different restrictions and rules than for the element relation of the set theory. See also parts, whole, totality, mereology, elements, element relation, sets, set theory, ontological dependency, overlap._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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| Field, Hartry | Part-of-Relation | Field | |
| Gärdenfors, Peter | Part-of-Relation | Gärdenfors | |
| Lewis, David K. | Part-of-Relation | Lewis | |
| Meixner, Uwe | Part-of-Relation | Meixner | |
| Simons, Peter M. | Part-of-Relation | Simons | |
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