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The basic notion of Bolzano’s ontological system is the part relation. Its domain embraces concrete substances, abstract objects, and collections; the converse domain contains collections only. Some collections are concrete entities existing in space and time, the rest are abstract sets.
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Berg, J. (1994). The Ontological Foundations of Bolzano’s Philosophy of Mathematics. In: Prawitz, D., Westerståhl, D. (eds) Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala. Synthese Library, vol 236. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8311-4_16
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