#Parts #Whole: 2017-12-09

• The materials to build a road are not a road, because the sum of the parts is not the whole.
• The building materials for a house are not a house, because the sum of the parts is not the whole.
• The ingredients to make beer or cake are not beer or cake, because the sum of the parts is neither the whole nor their combination.
• The collected parts of an automobile are not an automobile, because the sum of the parts is neither the whole nor the functioning system.

• The parts of an animal or plant are not an animal or plant, because the sum of the parts is neither the whole nor the interactions of the relations within the whole.