Dear Doug, (01)
> > Take the team/club example.
> > It seems obvious to me that a team member is indeed a mereological
> > part-of the team, at least if we ignore temporal extents (We might
> > have to say, the temporal part of the member during the time interval
> > that the team exists, is part-of the team.)
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> Why do you consider the team to have a spatial extent? I'd resist such a
> model. Does the team have a mass and a volume? (02)
MW: Well I sail, and I can confirm that there are occasions when the weight
of the crew has a limit set on it for a class of boat. Interestingly you can
even in some cases have more lighter people or fewer heavier people within
the rules. So I would definitely go for a team having a mereological
relationship to its members. However, there is also the question of roles,
so in a crew, one is the helm, another the tactician, two or more are
grinders, whilst others are trimmers. So that is another kind of
constitution a team has. One does not exclude another. (03)
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> -- doug foxvog
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> > It is far less
> > obvious that the team is part-of the club; indeed, that seems like a
> > category mistake. (Does a club have a spatiotemporal extent?) And it
> > is surly not true to say that a club is part-of a federation. I don't
> > see a federation as being a mereological whole. So, part-of is indeed
> > transitive, its is easy to describe, and it has nothing much to do
> > with federations. That all seems pretty obvious to me. Next question?
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