Steven,
I only very quickly scanned the abstract that you linked to, and would
ask: With mereology characterized as a theory of collective sets (in
opposition to the Cantorian notion of set), and with collective sets
defined by means of the part of relation, such that mereology can be
described
Dear Irving,
The answer is maybe. I have not spent enough time with Lesniewski's work to
say at this point, it's certainly relevant. This and Tarski's work on
cylindrical logic are only recently upon my horizon and I am not confident that
I will have anything useful to say about either in
Thank you for publicising that, Irving! Both papers were part of a
mini-conference myself and Clemency Montelle organized at the NZ Division
of the Australasian Association of Philosophy Conference, in Dec '09.
Peirce featured prominently in discussions on the day, which is unusual
for
Steven,
Having only your abstract to go on, I can certainly recognize
perennial themes out of Peirce's school, but they have been just
as perennially met with incomprehension as they have been brought
to the general lack of attention. Most notable among those themes
is no doubt the