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

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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

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If we see everything as separate, we can then give no account of it [Plato]