在哲学方面，分体论（英文：；该单词源自希腊语“”；其中，词头“meros”意思是“部分”或者说“组成部分”，而词尾“-logy”则指的是研究、学问、讨论和科学），是指一套与组成部分及其相应整体有关的公理化一阶理论。分体论既指的是谓词逻辑的一种应用，又指的是形式本体论的一个分支。

参见
本体论

 Gunk
 分體本質論
 分體虛無主義
 Mereotopology
 Plural quantification
 Simples
 Whitehead's point-free geometry

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外部链接
 斯坦福哲学百科全书（）：
"Mereology " – Achille Varzi.
"Boundary " – Achille Varzi.
Synergy and Dysergy in Mereologic Geometries"" - Albert Carpenter

 
 
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