Social wholes and parts

Mind 92 (366):219-238 (1983)
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To what extend can genuinely mereological considerations apply to talk of wholes and parts in discussions of the relationship between individual persons and the social groups, etc. to which they belong?

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10.1093/mind/xcii.366.219

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