Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Plato and Robert Pasnau

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
Typical successive things are time and motion [Pasnau]
     Full Idea: The standard scholastic examples of 'entia successiva' are time and motion.
     From: Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 18.1)
     A reaction: Aristotle's examples of a day and the Games seem clearer, as time and motion do not count so clearly as 'things'.
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers [Plato]
     Full Idea: The day before the trial the prow of the ship that the Athenians send to Delos had been crowned with garlands. - Which ship is that? - It is the ship in which, the Athenians say, Theseus once sailed to Crete, taking the victims.
     From: Plato (Phaedo [c.382 BCE], 058a)
     A reaction: Not philosophical, but this is the Ship of Theseus whose subsequent identity, Plutarch tells us, became a matter of dispute.
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
Weak ex nihilo says it all comes from something; strong version says the old must partly endure [Pasnau]
     Full Idea: The weak ex nihilo principle says that everything comes from something, and the strong ex nihilo principle says that in everything new, something of the old must endure
     From: Robert Pasnau (Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 [2011], 02.5)