Who needs mereology?

Philosophia Mathematica 5 (1):65-70 (1997)
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This note examines the mereological component of Geoffrey Hellman's most recent version of modal structuralism. There are plausible forms of agnosticism that benefit only a little from Hellman's mereological turn.

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