Talk:Meronymy
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Does meronomy denote relationships like "instance-of" or more like "part-of"? Ta!
Another wikipedia term "mereology" -- the theory of parthood relations -- pertains to the sense of "part-of". Mereology appears to have arisen from mathematical logic community, while this entry (meronomy) appears to have come from the linquistic community, so such an inconsistency is not surprising. Mereology defines part-of relations more precisely than meronymy, but the latter seems more intuitive (but at the risk of inconsistency).
Since I am a Wikipedia newbie, I do not feel confident editing this page. I suggest that the author of this page get with the author of the mereology page to: 1) link with the entry for mereology and visa versa, and 2) resolve inconsistencies between pages. -- Vonkje
Okay ... its been three weeks now, so I went on ahead and linked to mereology Vonkje 00:24, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Changed example
1) I changed the example 'Winchester Cathedral' is a meronym for 'Church of England' with some other examples. The Winchester example is confusing because 'church' has two meanings (congregation, building). This could be the subject of an interesting discussion but an example should not lead the reader off the track like that.
2) A meronym usually means part of a whole. A word denoting a subset of what another word denotes is a hyponym.
wellsoberlin 21:19, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
