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There is a surprising variety of programs in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics that have found mereology a useful and, in some cases, an indispensable tool. After emphasising a number of key relevant features of mereology, we will briefly examine five such programs, including (1) Goodman and Quine’s (1947) efforts to recover the syntax of mathematical language as part of a finitist, formalist philosophy of mathematics; (2) Tarski (1929; 1956), Menger (1940), et al.’s programs to reconstruct geometry and topology from
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