Mereology and mathematics: Christian Wolff's foundational programme

British Journal for the History of Philosophy 27 (6):1151-1172 (2019)
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ABSTRACTHow did the traditional doctrine of parts and wholes evolve into contemporary formal mereology? This paper argues that a crucial missing link may lie in the early modern and especially Wolf...

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10.1080/09608788.2019.1568228

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Christian Wolff.Matt Hettche & Corey W. Dyck - 2019 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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