Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Heraclitus, Hecato and Saul A. Kripke

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

16991

No one seems to know the identity conditions for a material object (or for people) over time [Kripke]

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

427	It is not possible to step twice into the same river [Heraclitus]

11091

You can bathe in the same river twice, but not in the same river stage [Quine on Heraclitus]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential

11867

If we lose track of origin, how do we show we are maintaining a reference? [Kripke, by Wiggins]

12018

Kripke argues, of the Queen, that parents of an organism are essentially so [Kripke, by Forbes,G]

17046

Could the actual Queen have been born of different parents? [Kripke]

8274	Socrates can't have a necessary origin, because he might have had no 'origin' [Lowe on Kripke]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 13. No Identity over Time

2064	If flux is continuous, then lack of change can't be a property, so everything changes in every possible way [Plato on Heraclitus]