Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Hermarchus, Michael Burke and Charlotte Witt
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]
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The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]
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Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]
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Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Aristotelian and Kripkean essentialism are very different theories [Witt]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
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An Aristotelian essence is a nonlinguistic correlate of the definition [Witt]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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If unity is a matter of degree, then essence may also be a matter of degree [Witt]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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Essences mainly explain the existence of unified substance [Witt]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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Essential properties of origin are too radically individual for an Aristotelian essence [Witt]
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