Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Herodotus, Plato and Robert Pasnau

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta
9607 The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
13263 We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]
16649 Scholastics say there is a genuine thing if it is 'separable' [Pasnau]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties
16785 If you reject essences, questions of individuation become extremely difficult [Pasnau]
16680 Scholastics thought Quantity could be the principle of individuation [Pasnau]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
13787 Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
15855 If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it [Plato]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
13261 Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki]
13265 Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Plato, by Koslicki]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
15851 Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form [Plato]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
15856 A thing can become one or many, depending on how we talk about it [Plato]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
16628 Corpuscularianism promised a decent account of substance [Pasnau]
16617 Corpuscularian critics of scholasticism say only substances exist [Pasnau]
16741 Scholastics wanted to treat Aristotelianism as physics, rather than as metaphysics [Pasnau]
16777 If crowds are things at all, they seem to be Substances, since they bear properties [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
593 Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Plato, by Aristotle]
16615 Scholastics use 'substantia' for thick concrete entities, and for thin metaphysical ones [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
16775 For corpuscularians, a substance is just its integral parts [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
16769 If clay survives destruction of the statue, the statue wasn't a substance, but a mere accident [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
16602 Corpuscularianism rejected not only form, but also the dependence of matter on form [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / b. Form as principle
16612 Hylomorphism may not be a rival to science, but an abstract account of unity and endurance [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal
16613 Hylomorphism declined because scholastics made it into a testable physical theory [Pasnau]
16747 Scholastics made forms substantial, in a way unintended by Aristotle [Pasnau]
16759 Scholastics began to see substantial form more as Aristotle's 'efficient' cause [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
16748 Aquinas says a substance has one form; Scotists say it has many forms [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object
16671 Scholastic Quantity either gives a body parts, or spreads them out in a unified way [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
15846 In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts [Plato, by Harte,V]
374 If one object is divided into its parts, someone can then say that one are many and many is one [Plato]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
16579 There may be different types of substrate, or temporary substrates [Pasnau]
16596 A substratum can't be 'bare', because it has a job to do [Pasnau]
16584 If a substrate gives causal support for change, quite a lot of the ingredients must endure [Pasnau]
16580 A substrate may be 'prime matter', which endures through every change [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
2084 If a word has no parts and has a single identity, it turns out to be the same kind of thing as a letter [Plato]
15849 Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not [Plato, by Harte,V]
15850 Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many [Plato]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
15843 The whole can't be the parts, because it would be all of the parts, which is the whole [Plato]
13260 Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Plato, by Koslicki]
13259 It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]
15844 A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole [Plato]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
11237 Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
13774 Things don't have every attribute, and essence isn't private, so each thing has an essence [Plato]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 4. Essence as Definition
21259 To grasp a thing we need its name, its definition, and what it really is [Plato]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
11238 Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
16749 Aristotelians deny that all necessary properties are essential [Pasnau]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
13772 Is the being or essence of each thing private to each person? [Plato]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
16694 Typical successive things are time and motion [Pasnau]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
16516 The ship which Theseus took to Crete is now sent to Delos crowned with flowers [Plato]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
16583 Weak ex nihilo says it all comes from something; strong version says the old must partly endure [Pasnau]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
15847 Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part [Plato]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
13788 If we made a perfect duplicate of Cratylus, there would be two Cratyluses [Plato]