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Achille C. Varzi
Researcher at Columbia University
Publications - 151
Citations - 4313
Achille C. Varzi is an academic researcher from Columbia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mereology & Mereotopology. The author has an hindex of 30, co-authored 149 publications receiving 4166 citations.
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Parts and Places: Structures in Spatial Representation
Roberto Casati,Achille C. Varzi +1 more
TL;DR: In this book Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation through a unified framework for spatial representation understood quite broadly as a theory of the representation of spatial entities.
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Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation
Roberto Casati,Achille C. Varzi +1 more
TL;DR: Casati and Achille C. Varzi as mentioned in this paper address some of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of spatial representation and propose a unified framework for spatial representation understood quite broadly as a theory of the representation of spatial entities.
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Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries
Barry Smith,Achille C. Varzi +1 more
TL;DR: In the presence of this twosorted ontology it then transpires that mereotopology-typology erected on a mereological basis-is more than a trivial formal variant of classical point-set topology.
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Parts, wholes, and part-whole relations: the prospects of mereotopology
TL;DR: This paper examines three main ways of answering the question: how can the two theories of mereology and topology be combined to obtain a unified theory of parts and wholes?
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Holes and Other Superficialities
Roberto Casati,Achille C. Varzi +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the borderlines of metaphysics, everyday geometry and the theory of perception are investigated, and two basic questions: Do holes really exist? If they do, what are they?