Combining Philosophers
Ideas for David O. Brink, Plato and Leon Horsten
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta
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The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it [Plato]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki]
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form [Plato]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
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A thing can become one or many, depending on how we talk about it [Plato]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
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Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Plato, by Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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If one object is divided into its parts, someone can then say that one are many and many is one [Plato]
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In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts [Plato, by Harte,V]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not [Plato, by Harte,V]
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If a word has no parts and has a single identity, it turns out to be the same kind of thing as a letter [Plato]
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Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many [Plato]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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The whole can't be the parts, because it would be all of the parts, which is the whole [Plato]
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A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole [Plato]
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Plato, by Koslicki]
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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
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To grasp a thing we need its name, its definition, and what it really is [Plato]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers [Plato]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
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Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part [Plato]
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Two existing entities can never strictly coincide [Plato]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato]
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