Payton, Jonathan D.2022-02-142022-02-142021-08-210004-8402http://hdl.handle.net/11693/77315I defend the thesis that Composition Entails Identity (CEI): that is, a whole is identical to all of its parts, taken together. CEI seems to be inconsistent, since it seems to require that the parts of a whole possess incompatible number properties (for instance, being one thing and being many things). I show that these number properties are, in fact, compatible.EnglishMereologyComposition as identityNumberNumerical expressionsPlural logicArticle10.1080/00048402.2021.19386171471-6828