Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Democritus, Mulligan/Simons/Smith and John Wycliff

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
3357 Democritus denies reality to large objects, because atomic entities can't combine to produce new ones [Benardete,JA on Democritus]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
598 Democritus said that substances could never be mixed, so atoms are the substances [Democritus, by Aristotle]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
16700 In order to speak about time and successive entities, the 'present' must be enlarged [Wycliff]
16701 To be successive a thing needs parts, which must therefore be lodged outside that instant [Wycliff]