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mereologynoun
The discipline which deals with parts and their respective wholes.
Etymology: Coined by Stanisław Leśniewski in 1927, from μέρος + -logy.
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Mereology
In philosophy and mathematical logic, mereology treats parts and the wholes they form. Whereas set theory is founded on the membership relation between a set and its elements, mereology emphasizes the meronomic relation between entities, which from a set theoretic perspective is closer to that of inclusion between sets. Mereology has been axiomatized in various ways as applications of predicate logic to formal ontology, of which mereology is an important part. A common element of such axiomatizations is the assumption, shared with inclusion, that the part-whole relation orders its universe, meaning that everything is a part of itself, that a part of a part of a whole is itself a part of that whole, and that two distinct entities cannot each be a part of the other. A variant of this axiomatization denies that anything is ever part of itself while accepting transitivity, from which antisymmetry follows automatically. Standard university texts on logic and mathematics are silent about mereology, which has undoubtedly contributed to its obscurity. Although mereology is an application of mathematical logic, what can be argued a sort of "proto-geometry", it has been wholly developed by logicians, ontologists, linguists, engineers, and computer scientists, especially those working in artificial intelligence.
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The numerical value of mereology in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of mereology in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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