parthood
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parthood (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The relational quality of being a part.
- 2008 February 1, Maureen Donnelly, Thomas Bittner, “Summation relations and portions of stuff”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 2, , pages 167–185:
- For describing changes in parthood relations over time some sort of temporal apparatus needs to be incorporated into the mereology.