Miller, Ryan (2020) Not Another Brick in the Wall: an Extensional Mereology for Potential Parts. [Preprint]

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Part is not a univocal term. Uses of parthood and composition that do not obey any supplementation principle have a long philosophical tradition and strong support from contemporary physics. We call such uses potential parts. This paper first shows why potential parts are important and incompatible with supplementation, then provides a formal mereology for such parts inspired by the path-integral approach to quantum electrodynamics.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Miller, Ryan 66millerr@cua.edu 0000-0003-0268-2570
Keywords:	quantum mereology, potential parts, quantum chromodynamics, feynman diagrams
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Depositing User:	Ryan Miller
Date Deposited:	16 Apr 2020 20:53
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2020 20:53
Item ID:	17076
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Condensed Matter Specific Sciences > Physics > Fields and Particles General Issues > Models and Idealization Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics General Issues > Reductionism/Holism
Date:	2020
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17076

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