Analytic Rules for Mereology

Studia Logica 104 (1):79-114 (2016)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

We present a sequent calculus for extensional mereology. It extends the classical first-order sequent calculus with identity by rules of inference corresponding to well-known mereological axioms. Structural rules, including cut, are admissible

Other Versions

No versions found

Links

PhilArchive

    This entry is not archived by us. If you are the author and have permission from the publisher, we recommend that you archive it. Many publishers automatically grant permission to authors to archive pre-prints. By uploading a copy of your work, you will enable us to better index it, making it easier to find.

    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 104,319

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Analytics

Added to PP
2015-07-09

Downloads
55 (#427,832)

6 months
1 (#1,599,157)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Citations of this work

Mereology then and now.Rafał Gruszczyński & Achille C. Varzi - 2015 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 24 (4):409–427.
Cut elimination for coherent theories in negation normal form.Paolo Maffezioli - 2024 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 63 (3):427-445.
Sequents for non-wellfounded mereology.Paolo Maffezioli - 2016 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 25 (3):351-369.

Add more citations

References found in this work

Parts: A Study in Ontology.Peter M. Simons - 1987 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
The calculus of individuals and its uses.Henry S. Leonard & Nelson Goodman - 1940 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 5 (2):45-55.
What Is Classical Mereology?Paul Hovda - 2009 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 38 (1):55 - 82.
Proof Analysis in Modal Logic.Sara Negri - 2005 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 34 (5-6):507-544.
Non-wellfounded Mereology.Aaron J. Cotnoir & Andrew Bacon - 2012 - Review of Symbolic Logic 5 (2):187-204.

View all 9 references / Add more references