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Ideas for Anaxarchus, Barbara Vetter and John Heil

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
7008 Trope theorists usually see objects as 'bundles' of tropes [Heil]
7018 Objects are substances, which are objects considered as the bearer of properties [Heil]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / d. Problems with abstracta
18498 Abstract objects wouldn't be very popular without the implicit idea of truthmakers [Heil]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
18507 Substances bear properties, so must be simple, and not consist of further substances [Heil]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
7019 Maybe there is only one substance, space-time or a quantum field [Heil]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
7046 Rather than 'substance' I use 'objects', which have properties [Heil]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
7047 Statues and bronze lumps have discernible differences, so can't be identical [Heil]
7048 Do we reduce statues to bronze, or eliminate statues, or allow statues and bronze? [Heil]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
18515 Spatial parts are just regions, but objects depend on and are made up of substantial parts [Heil]
18516 A 'gunky' universe would literally have no parts at all [Heil]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
18514 Many wholes can survive replacement of their parts [Heil]
18517 Dunes depend on sand grains, but line segments depend on the whole line [Heil]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
17953 Real definition fits abstracta, but not individual concrete objects like Socrates [Vetter]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
17952 Modal accounts make essence less mysterious, by basing them on the clearer necessity [Vetter]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
4592 If you can have the boat without its current planks, and the planks with no boat, the planks aren't the boat [Heil]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
19030 Why does origin matter more than development; why are some features of origin more important? [Vetter]
19040 We take origin to be necessary because we see possibilities as branches from actuality [Vetter]