Arguments For
There are several arguments for mereological essentialism. Some are more formal and others take mereological essentialism as solutions to philosophical puzzles or paradoxes. (This approach is, for instance, mentioned in Olson (2006).)
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“Compared to football, baseball is almost an Oriental game, minimizing individual stardom, requiring a wide range of aggressive and defensive skills, and filled with long periods of inaction and irresolution. It has no time limitations. Football, on the other hand, has immediate goals, resolution on every single play, and a lot of violence—itself a highlight. It has clearly distinguishable hierarchies: heroes and drones.”
—Jerry Mander, U.S. advertising executive, author. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, ch. 15, Morrow (1978)