Medieval Mereology

Table of contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
Coded Booklist......Page 18
0.1 Mereology, Ancient and Contemporary......Page 28
0.2 Medieval Mereology and Metaphysics......Page 29
0.3 Intimations of Speculative Grammar......Page 37
0.4 The Grammar of Quiddity and Universals......Page 41
0.5 The Grammar of Parthood......Page 47
0.6 Unity of Medieval and Contemporary Approaches......Page 48
0.7 Summary......Page 57
1.1 Aims and Method......Page 59
1.2 Assets for Exploitation......Page 61
1.31 Outline......Page 64
1.32 The Thesis of Part-Whole Disparity......Page 65
1.4 X-parts and Parts-of-X......Page 73
1.5 The Scandal of the Non-discrete Singular......Page 83
1.6 Temporal Parts......Page 88
1.7 Conclusion......Page 89
2.1 Historical Preliminary......Page 91
2.2 Some Crucial Distinctions......Page 92
2.3 Parts-of-X and X-parts (cf. 1.4 above)......Page 106
2.4 Identity and Principal Parts......Page 119
2.5 Increase and Decrease......Page 143
2.6 The Temporal Dimension......Page 166
2.7 Master Peter's Mereology......Page 178
2.81 The Originality of Gilbert of Poitiers......Page 207
2.82 Clarembald's Accusation......Page 212
2.83 The Gilbertian Innovations......Page 217
2.84 The Compendium of Porretan Logic.......Page 221
2.9 Concluding Remarks on Section 2......Page 244
3.11 From Elements to Form......Page 245
3.12 Quiddity and the Individual......Page 252
3.2 Wholes and Parts......Page 256
3.3 Further Precisions......Page 281
3.31 Matter and Part......Page 282
3.32 Essential or Integral? The status of Matter and Form.......Page 284
3.33 Form-parts and Integrality......Page 288
3.34 'Part of ...' as a Functor......Page 297
3.35 Principal Parts......Page 300
3.36 Analogically Integral Parts......Page 305
3.41 Parts-of-X and X-Parts......Page 306
3.42 Organic Parts and the Mereological Axiomatic......Page 314
3.43 The Soul in Quaestiones Disputatae......Page 325
3.44 Eucharistic Mereology......Page 335
3.5 Attributions and Actions......Page 340
3.6 Resurrection and Identity......Page 344
3.7 Natural and Artificial......Page 348
4. Some Buridanian Theses......Page 356
5.1 Introduction......Page 368
5.2 Integral and Universal......Page 370
5.3 Attributions: from secundum quid to simplidter......Page 371
5.4 Mereology and Manifolds......Page 383
5.5 Around the Liar Paradox......Page 399
6.1 A Wycliffian Work on Universals: General Prospectus......Page 410
6.2 Parallels and Innovations......Page 415
7.01 Transitional Introduction......Page 433
7.1 Syncategoremata as Functors......Page 444
7.2 Examples from Earlier Syncategoremata-Treatises......Page 447
7.3 Nicholas of Paris on totus, 'whole'.......Page 455
7.4 Nicholas of Paris on Exceptives......Page 470
7.5 Ockham on Integral Wholes......Page 480
8.02 Scope of the Present Treatment.......Page 489
8.03 References and Cross-references.......Page 490
8.05 The Categorematic/Syncategorematic Distinction.......Page 491
8.06 General Remarks on 'whole' taken Syncategorematically.......Page 496
8.1 Truths derived from the syncategorematic 'whole'.......Page 499
8.2 Falsehoods derived from the syncategorematic 'whole'.......Page 502
8.31 Argument against the Truth of [8.12]......Page 506
8.32 Argument against the Truth of [8.11]......Page 507
8.33 Argument against the Falsehood of [8.23]......Page 508
8.41 Reply to Objection [8.31]......Page 512
8.42 Reply to Objection [8.32]......Page 516
8.431 First reply to [8.33]......Page 518
8.4311 Criticism of [8.431]......Page 520
8.4320 Second Reply to [8.33]......Page 523
8.4321 First Counter-reply to the Destructivism of [8.4320]......Page 524
8.4322 Second Counter-reply to [8.4320]......Page 526
8.4324 Final three Counter-replies to [8.4320]......Page 527
8.433 Third Reply to [8.33]......Page 530
8.5 Objections to this Last Reply......Page 532
8.6 Replies to these Last Objections......Page 534
8.7 Final Reply......Page 539
8.81 On 'whole' taken Categorematically......Page 545
8.82 Arguments against the Proposed Conventions......Page 553
8.83 Replies to these Objections......Page 557
8.9 Postscript to Paul of Venice......Page 563
9. Situational Review......Page 565
10.01 Prospectus......Page 568
10.1 Some Protothetical Functors......Page 572
10.2 Ontological Axiom, Definitions, and Theses......Page 577
10.21 Functors of Existence.......Page 578
10.22 Functors of Identity.......Page 584
10.23 Functors of Inclusion.......Page 585
10.24 Many-link Functors.......Page 586
10.25 Name-forming Functors and Nominal Expressions.......Page 590
10.26 A Quidditative '... is ...'......Page 593
10.27 An Axiom for Ontology.......Page 595
10.28 Punctation.......Page 598
10.29 Abstract Nouns.......Page 602
10.3 Mereology......Page 605
10.31 Axiom System based on 'pt( )'.......Page 606
10.32 Theses based on the 'pt( )' Axiomatic.......Page 609
10.33 Concerning 'outside of ...'......Page 613
10.34 On Overlapping.......Page 615
10.35 Atomistic Mereology.......Page 616
10.4 Conclusion.......Page 617
Index......Page 619