Pieces of a Theory. Studies in Logic and Formal Ontology

The whole, that which is compounded out of something, is one, not like a heap, but like a syllable. Now the syllable is not its elements; ba is not the same as b and a, nor is flesh the same as fire and earth (for when these are separated the wholes, i. e. the flesh and the syllable, no longer exist, but the elements of the syllable exist, and so do fire and earth); the syllable, then, is something not only its elements (the vowel and the consonant) but also something else, and the flesh is not only fire and earth, or the hot and the cold, but also something else.