Download or read book Wholes, Sums and Unities written by A. Meirav and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the author formulates a critique of widely accepted mereological assumptions, presents a new conception of wholes as ‘Unities’, and demonstrates the advantages of this new conception in treating a variety of metaphysical puzzles (such as that of Tibbles the cat). More generally he suggests that conceiving wholes as Unities offers us a new way of understanding the world in non-reductive terms.