Criticism of the notion of a neoclassical sum

pp. 167-188

in: Ariel Meirav, Wholes, sums and unities, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Abstract

Having looked at the advantages which neoclassical mereology offers as contrasted with its classical ancestor, in allowing for conditioned sums, non-unique sums, and mereologically varying sums, and in providing what might seem to be an adequate framework for accounting for traditional higher-grade notions of wholes, I now turn to consider some weaknesses of this flexible theory.