Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Heraclitus, Ross P. Cameron and Hermann von Helmholtz

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

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Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change

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Change is instantiation of a non-uniform distributional property, like 'being red-then-orange' [Cameron]

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

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

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

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]