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Partonomics is the study of how parts or component pieces are identified. The related general term for the field is 'Partonomy'.
It is related to but different from Mereology (the relation of parts to wholes).
It has been defined as "how we parse what we see into meaningful units and subunits of information based on multiple levels of prediction and observation". Kapitány et al 2018: 47[1]
It has mainly been studied in psychology but is relevant (implicitly) to many other disciplines eg Linguistics (see Linguistic universals) where Cecil Brown discussed vocabularies for the parts of the body.[2] Some languages distinguish hands from arms, others have but one term for the whole appendage: that is the partonomic puzzle - how and where to split a thing/ object (concepts too) into its component parts. It is very well to talk about 'carving nature at the joints' (attributed to Plato) but some joints are deemed more significant than others! This is an issue of classification.
In psychology Barbara Tversky has looked at the mechanisms involved see eg[3] and her chapter [4]. Partonomics has also been discussed in Psi-theory another part of psychology.
References
[edit]- ↑ Kapitány, R.; Kavanagh, C.; Whitehouse, H.; Nielsen, M. (2018). "Examining memory for ritualized gesture in complex causal sequences". Cognition. 181: 46–57. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2018.08.005. ISSN 0010-0277.
- ↑ Brown, Cecil H. (1976). "General principles of human anatomical partonomy and speculations on the growth of partonomic nomenclature". American Ethnologist. 3 (3): 400–424. doi:10.1525/ae.1976.3.3.02a00020. ISSN 0094-0496.
- ↑ Tversky, Barbara (1989). "Parts, partonomies, and taxonomies". Developmental Psychology. 25 (6): 983–995. doi:10.1037//0012-1649.25.6.983. ISSN 0012-1649.
- ↑ Tversky, Barbara (1990). "Where partonomies and taxonomies meet". In Tsohatzidis, Savas L. (ed.). Meanings and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization. London: Routledge. pp. 334–344. doi:10.4324/9781315857398-19.