The study of parts and wholes, or mereology, occupies two of the best philosophical minds of twelfth-century Europe. Boethius all but omits mention of the classical Aristotelian concept of form. Abelard thinks that the loss of any part entails the annihilation of the whole.
The study of parts and wholes, or mereology, occupies two of the best philosophical minds of twelfth-century Europe. Boethius all but omits mention of the classical Aristotelian concept of f…