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Leśniewski, Tarski and the Axioms of Mereology

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Alongside a respect for philosophically informed formal work and an interest in all things Polish, Jan Woleński and I share a profound admiration for Leśniewski’s oeuvre. As Jan once told me, you can work on Leśniewski for your whole life. Indeed so. Eighteen years after I first met him, on a morning in late March at a bus stop in Sucha Bezkidzka, Southern Poland, here’s a story about the axioms of Leśniewski’s mereology, and Tarski’s complicated role in it.

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Betti, A. (2014). Leśniewski, Tarski and the Axioms of Mereology. In: Mulligan, K., Kijania-Placek, K., Placek, T. (eds) The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030894_12

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