The Ontological Nature of Part-Whole Oscillations

An Interdisciplinary Determination

by Michael W. Stadler

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Extent: 332 pages

Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press

Subjects: Language & Linguistics, Philosophy

Series: Denkschriften der philosophisch-historischen Klasse

Series volume number: 523

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2020)

ISBN: 9783700185925

Price: $132.00

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The nature of structures comprising part-whole relations belongs to the oldest, most fundamental and still discussed questions of philosophy. Unlike many former approaches, which either give priority to the parts or to the whole of such structures, the present book is an ontological, psychological, and cognitive-linguistic investigation that suggests an alternative to a hierarchical conception of parts and whole with a one-sided dependency relation. This alternative is called ‘part-whole-oscillation’ and is developed on a formal as well as empirical basis.

  • By (author) Michael W Stadler