Day 62 of 365: No Possession

There is no real possession of a whole by its parts, or of parts by an imagined whole, just as cartness, which does not truly exist, cannot possess parts or vice versa.

This one piggy backs off the first two analyses.  Since we have shown that there is no essential reality of a cart outside of the parts, there can be no possession by either.

This was such a throw back to the first two analyses that I went over those again.  There is no essential reality in a thing as a whole, and there is no reality distinct from the sum of the parts.  If we believe that there is an essential reality to something like a cart, then that essential reality would need to be in the thing as a whole or distinct from all the parts.  If it were in the thing as a whole, then it would have to be somewhere in the thing. Taking the object apart reveals that we cannot find the essential reality in this way--we will no longer see any cart, for example, when we take it apart.  The cart is also totally dependent on the parts, so there can be no essential reality which is distinct from them.