Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Archimedes, David Wiggins and R Kaplan / E Kaplan
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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Individuation needs accounts of identity, of change, and of singling out [Wiggins]
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Individuation can only be understood by the relation between things and thinkers [Wiggins]
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We can accept criteria of distinctness and persistence, without making the counterfactual claims [Mackie,P on Wiggins]
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Activity individuates natural things, functions do artefacts, and intentions do artworks [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location
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Singling out extends back and forward in time [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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The idea of 'thisness' is better expressed with designation/predication and particular/universal [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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We never single out just 'this', but always 'this something-or-other' [Wiggins]
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'Ultimate sortals' cannot explain ontological categories [Westerhoff on Wiggins]
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The only singling out is singling out 'as' something [Wiggins]
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In Aristotle's sense, saying x falls under f is to say what x is [Wiggins]
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Every determinate thing falls under a sortal, which fixes its persistence [Wiggins]
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Sortal predications are answers to the question 'what is x?' [Wiggins]
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A river may change constantly, but not in respect of being a river [Wiggins]
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Sortal classification becomes science, with cross reference clarifying individuals [Wiggins]
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If the kinds are divided realistically, they fall into substances [Wiggins]
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'Human being' is a better answer to 'what is it?' than 'poet', as the latter comes in degrees [Wiggins]
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Secondary substances correctly divide primary substances by activity-principles and relations [Wiggins]
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A sortal essence is a thing's principle of individuation [Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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Wiggins's sortal essentialism rests on a thing's principle of individuation [Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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The evening star is the same planet but not the same star as the morning star, since it is not a star [Wiggins]
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'Sortalism' says parts only compose a whole if it falls under a sort or kind [Wiggins, by Hossack]
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Identity a=b is only possible with some concept to give persistence and existence conditions [Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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A thing is necessarily its highest sortal kind, which entails an essential constitution [Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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Many predicates are purely generic, or pure determiners, rather than sortals [Wiggins]
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The possibility of a property needs an essential sortal concept to conceive it [Wiggins]
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