English

Adjective

mereological ‎(not comparable)

1. (philosophy, logic) Of or pertaining to mereology, a collection of axiomatic first-order theories dealing with parts and their respective wholes.

   Join is a mereological relation which can be interpreted as union set-theoretically.

   • 2008 August 13, Jonathan Schaffer, “Truthmaker commitments”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, DOI:10.1007/s11098-008-9260-y:

     I think that theories like mereological nihilism are interesting in the way that epistemological skepticism is interesting, the main question for both being how do we avoid this?

See also

• Mereology on Wikipedia.Wikipedia