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Parts and Wholes [Book Review]
Review of Metaphysics 17 (3):486-486 (1964)
Abstract
Composed of essays and transcripts of discussions, this is an informative survey of problems involving the concepts of part and whole. Well-known scholars in a wide range of fields, from physics to literature, are the contributors: E. Purcell, physics; S. Kuznets, economics; S. Ramo, systems engineering; the late C. Kluckhohn, anthropology; E. Nagel, philosophy; R. Jakobson, linguistics; and I. A. Richards, poetry.--A. E. F.My notes
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