Composition as General Identity

Can parts cause their wholes?

“…Though controversial, it has been defended in various forms by a number of philosophers (e.g. Baxter 1988Baxter , 2001Lewis 1991;Sider 2007;Cotnoir 2013). Of course, this does not entail that every part is identical to the whole, but it might be taken to imply that parts are partially identical with their wholes.…”

Composition, identity, and emergence

“…22 For a proposal of formulating CAI in such a way as not to entail Collapse see [Cotnoir, 2013]. Hovda [2014] suggests way to restrict Leibniz's law that would not sanction the instance of the substitutivity of identicals in the following proof.…”

“…Cotnoir [2013] develops an account of composition as generalized identity which actually allows for this. However, Composition as Generalized Identity, as Cotnoir develops it, does not entail the Collapse Principle, so it will not be discussed here.…”

Psychology and Philosophy of Abstract Art

“…On this understanding, through using the mereological device of the mapping sentence, facet theory is a philosophical orientation towards research, as well as a research process, which attempts to culminate in the statement of a valid compositional mereology (mapping sentence) of its research domain. Moreover, this defi nition implies that the mereological composition of a domain of interest is the relation between a whole and its specifi c parts, in which parts form the whole and where the whole is nothing more than its parts: the whole is its parts (see Cotnoir and Baxter 2014 ).…”