Sunday, October 15, 2017

Individual, Holism, Atomism

The Part of Holist Logic and the Particular of Aristotelian Logic are often equivalent, each expressed by the quantifier Some.  However, they diverge in the status of Individuality.  For, in Aristotelian Logic, an Individual is a Particular that can never be a Predicate, and, hence, can never be a Universal.  In contrast, in Holist Logic, an Individual can be both a Part and a Whole, e. g. Socrates is a part of Athens, and a Whole the parts of which are legs, a face, etc.  That Aristotelian Logic does not recognize such analysis of Individual entities exposes it as essentially Atomist, in contradistinction to his Political Holism.

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