Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Dennis Whitcomb, Ruth Barcan Marcus and Immanuel Kant
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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Objects in themselves are not known to us at all [Kant]
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The a priori concept of objects in general is the ground of experience [Kant]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought
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If objects are thoughts, aren't we back to psychologism? [Marcus (Barcan)]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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A substance could exist as a subject, but not as a mere predicate [Kant]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
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All appearances need substance, as that which persists through change [Kant]
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Substance must exist, as the persisting substratum of the process of change [Kant]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
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The substance, once the predicates are removed, remains unknown to us [Kant]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
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Aristotelian essentialism involves a 'natural' or 'causal' interpretation of modal operators [Marcus (Barcan)]
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Aristotelian essentialism is about shared properties, individuating essentialism about distinctive properties [Marcus (Barcan)]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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Essentialist sentences are not theorems of modal logic, and can even be false [Marcus (Barcan)]
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'Essentially' won't replace 'necessarily' for vacuous properties like snub-nosed or self-identical [Marcus (Barcan)]
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'Is essentially' has a different meaning from 'is necessarily', as they often cannot be substituted [Marcus (Barcan)]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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If essences are objects with only essential properties, they are elusive in possible worlds [Marcus (Barcan)]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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An a priori principle of persistence anticipates all experience [Kant]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
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Substitutivity won't fix identity, because expressions may be substitutable, but not refer at all [Marcus (Barcan)]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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The Identity of Indiscernibles is true of concepts with identical properties, but not of particulars [Kant, by Jolley]
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If we ignore differences between water drops, we still distinguish them by their location [Kant]
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