Falsehood: An Analysis of Illusion's Singularity by Marc Burock - HTML preview

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Part-Whole

108

 

A whole sustains its parts, and the parts create the whole.

 

109

 

A part within a whole cannot exit the whole and maintain its identity as the part, or, a part’s identity is conditional upon the whole.

 

110

 

A part is undefined in itself. A whole is defined by its parts.

 

111

 

A whole may fragment. The fragments will be multiple wholes, or will become parts belonging to a new whole.

 

112

 

The fragments will be dissimilar to the parts of the whole. If they are identical, then the whole was not a whole to begin with; it was a collection of multiple wholes.

 

113

 

Wholes may accrete, but they must fragment to do so.

 

114

 

All wholes have parts.

 

115

 

All parts belong to wholes. Parts do not have parts, but parts are not atoms. Atoms have identity outside of the whole, parts do not. Atoms can accrete, parts cannot.

 

117 Parts can neither fragment nor accrete. Wholes accrete by fragmenting.

Appendix C.