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In philosophy, mereological nihilism (also called compositional nihilism) is the metaphysical thesis that there are no objects with proper parts. Equivalently, mereological nihilism says that mereological simples, or objects without any proper parts, are the only material objects that exist.[dubious – discuss] Mereological nihilism is distinct from ordinary nihilism insofar as ordinary nihilism typically focuses on the nonexistence of common metaphysical assumptions such as ethical truths and objective meaning, rather than the nonexistence of composite objects.
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composed of smaller parts. Mereological nihilists claim that there are no composite material objects. According to mereologicalnihilism, there are only fundamental...
objects do not exist (§ Mereologicalnihilism), or even that life itself does not exist. The etymological origin of nihilism is the Latin root word nihil...
In philosophy, mereological essentialism is a mereological thesis about the relationship between wholes, their parts, and the conditions of their persistence...
according to David Bohm Laws of Form by G. Spencer-Brown Mereological essentialism Mereologicalnihilism Mereotopology Meronomy Meronymy Monad (philosophy)...
proper parts. mereological fusion Synonym for "mereological sum". mereological harmony See harmony. mereological monism The view that, in a large and significant...
whereas a hypernym of oak tree might be tree (an oak tree is a type of tree). Has-a Hyponymy and hypernymy Is-a Mereologicalnihilism Synecdoche v t e...
entities form mereological wholes, for instance, whether a dust particle on the tabletop forms part of the table. According to mereological universalists...
perdurantism and introduced the term gunk. Peter Van Inwagen believes in mereologicalnihilism except for living beings, a view called organicism. Peter van Inwagen's...
motion. Eliminative materialism First principle History of chemistry Mereologicalnihilism Montonen–Olive duality#Philosophical implications Ontological pluralism...
[citation needed] American philosophy List of American philosophers Mereologicalnihilism Indeed, some philosophers suggest free will must be compatible with...
one accepts relationalism about space-time. Four-dimensionalism Mereologicalnihilism Mereology Lewis, David Kellogg (1986). On the Plurality of Worlds...
called dharmas ("qualities"). Atomism Dharmakirti Dignaga Kalapas Mereologicalnihilism Reginald Ray (1999), Buddhist Saints in India, Oxford University...
the Whole" also contains his Argument from Gunk, according to which mereological atoms cannot be fundamental due to the possibility of infinitely divisible...
merely conceptual (paññatti) and nominal. This view has been termed "mereological reductionism" by Mark Siderits because it holds that only impartite entities...
the relation of love. McTaggart defends ontological idealism through a mereological argument which argues only spirits can be substances, as well as through...
for some form of Idealism. Vasubandhu uses the dream argument and a mereological refutation of atomism to attack the reality of external objects as anything...
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