Giorgio Lando

Quinean orthodoxy, insofar as Quine was its most ardent proponent—according to which existence and identity are univocal, in the sense that there is only one way to exist that applies to any kind of entity.

reflexive and antisymmetric. While these latter claims do not figure as axioms in the presentation of CEM from above, they are nonetheless CEM theorems. Thus, mereological monism is committed to them.

Transitivity, that is, the principle that if a thing x is part of a thing y that is part of a thing z, then x is part of z as well.