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Ideas for Cynthia Macdonald, Bernard Linsky and Thomas Hobbes

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location

14960

Bodies are independent of thought, and coincide with part of space [Hobbes]

17250

If you separate the two places of one thing, you will also separate the thing [Hobbes]

17249

If you separated two things in the same place, you would also separate the places [Hobbes]

7961	A 'thing' cannot be in two places at once, and two things cannot be in the same place at once [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

7926	We 'individuate' kinds of object, and 'identify' particular specimens [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

17248

If a whole body is moved, its parts must move with it [Hobbes]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

7936	Unlike bundles of properties, substances have an intrinsic unity [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

7930	The bundle theory of substance implies the identity of indiscernibles [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

7932	A phenomenalist cannot distinguish substance from attribute, so must accept the bundle view [Macdonald,C]

7937	When we ascribe a property to a substance, the bundle theory will make that a tautology [Macdonald,C]

7939	Substances persist through change, but the bundle theory says they can't [Macdonald,C]

7940	A substance might be a sequence of bundles, rather than a single bundle [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

7948	A statue and its matter have different persistence conditions, so they are not identical [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism

16620

A chair is wood, and its shape is the form; it isn't 'compounded' of the matter and form [Hobbes]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum

7929	A substance is either a bundle of properties, or a bare substratum, or an essence [Macdonald,C]

7941	Each substance contains a non-property, which is its substratum or bare particular [Macdonald,C]

7942	The substratum theory explains the unity of substances, and their survival through change [Macdonald,C]

7943	A substratum has the quality of being bare, and they are useless because indiscernible [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts

16790

A body is always the same, whether the parts are together or dispersed [Hobbes]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

17244

To make a whole, parts needn't be put together, but can be united in the mind [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

17233

Particulars contain universal things [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

17246

Some accidental features are permanent, unless the object perishes [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

17251

The feature which picks out or names a thing is usually called its 'essence' [Hobbes]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

16622

Essence is just an artificial word from logic, giving a way of thinking about substances [Hobbes]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

17257

It is the same river if it has the same source, no matter what flows in it [Hobbes]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus

12853

Some individuate the ship by unity of matter, and others by unity of form [Hobbes]

17256

If a new ship were made of the discarded planks, would two ships be numerically the same? [Hobbes]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

16794

As an infant, Socrates was not the same body, but he was the same human being [Hobbes]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

7927	At different times Leibniz articulated three different versions of his so-called Law [Macdonald,C]

7928	The Identity of Indiscernibles is false, because it is not necessarily true [Macdonald,C]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

17255

Two bodies differ when (at some time) you can say something of one you can't say of the other [Hobbes]