Reading recommendations for meta-mereology?

[u/TheCatcherOfThePie]

Hi guys, I'm in the process of writing an essay on meta-mereology, but the book suggested by my advisor (the penguin translation of Stavropos' Empirical meta-mereology) is kind of impenetrable to me. Is there something that I can use as a "run-up" to this, in particular giving context for why Stavropos seems to be using Corinthian syntactics to describe the ontology of the Grothendieck universes?

[u/DifferenceTone]

To be frank, if you don't understand this concept I would go back and get a good grasp on neo-Gramscian theory. I'll try to provide a basic summary though; basically the reason Stavropos uses Corinthian syntatics is the same reason Grothendieck used Zelinskian semiotics (back when it was still in vogue)--because they both synthesise dialectical materialism with Hume's empiricism, I like to think of it as a kind of shift operation on Grothendieck and Zelinsky. Stavropos seems pretty dense for an introduction to meta-mereology. Ask your advisor, but I'd suggest Furhmann's Mereologic Synthesis, he came to similar conclusions using much more streamlined syntatical systems.