why isn't everyone a mereological nihilist

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[–]neolib 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The whole mereology field seems to be quite esoteric to me, but I'll admit I didn't look into it closely.

In logic, philosophy and related fields, mereology (from Greek μέρος 'part' (root: μερε-, mere-, 'part') and the suffix -logy, 'study, discussion, science') is the study of parts and the wholes they form. Whereas set theory is founded on the membership relation between a set and its elements, mereology emphasizes the meronomic relation between entities, which—from a set-theoretic perspective—is closer to the concept of inclusion between sets.

[–]PragmaticStoicism 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sounds like a better explanation is to say that metrology is the study of what similarities there are between different things. Rather than putting things into categories and ignoring the similarities of things in different groups, meteology rejects categories and only looks for those things which are the same.

That is the most logic I can make of what is at best a poorly considered analytical style.