It does, and everyone (from Plato and Aristotle to you) agrees. In this post, we explore the various ways of dividing reality into different levels.
Tag: Mereology
It’s time to count down the top 10 posts from this past year! We, however, are going to do two different top 10s. First, we’ll…
Top 40 Philosophy: Darius Rucker, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
Posted in Friendly Philosophy, Music, and Top 40 Philosophy
As of my writing this, we have done one song each from the top three albums on Billboard’s Holiday Albums chart. For today, then, we…
Top 40 Philosophy Flashback: Dido, “Thank You”
Posted in Friendly Philosophy, Music, and Top 40 Philosophy
Since today is Thanksgiving here in America, let’s flashback to Dido’s “Thank You,” from 1998. The song made it to #3 on the Billboard Hot…
Perception as Synthesis?
Posted in Friendly Philosophy, and Life
While checking some audio-books-on-CD, to make sure I was returning all the right discs to the library, I noticed something odd. The slip covers/pages/whatever that…
Some Not-Well-Developed Thoughts: Whether wholes are more fundamental than their parts, or parts more fundamental than their wholes, is an important question. The terminology of…