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ta988 on March 18, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who’s afraid of reverse mereological essentialism?

The realist ontologists have subdivided the world in things like functions for that exact reason. See http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Functions-in-BFO.... . Fumiaki Toyoshima has had some thoughts about functional parthood too: https://hal.science/hal-03041516/document

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