Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Mereology is the study of whole-part relationships. A problem in the field of mereology is that the words "part of" are often used in ambiguous ways in natural language. The part-of relationship is most commonly viewed as a partial order, although some have questioned this. The most frequent objection is that the part-of relationship is not necessarily transitive. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.