Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Albert of Saxony and Robert C. Stalnaker
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects
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Predicates can't apply to what doesn't exist [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
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For the bare particular view, properties must be features, not just groups of objects [Stalnaker]
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Possible worlds allow separating all the properties, without hitting a bare particular [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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An essential property is one had in all the possible worlds where a thing exists [Stalnaker]
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'Socrates is essentially human' seems to say nothing could be Socrates if it was not human [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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Necessarily self-identical, or being what it is, or its world-indexed properties, aren't essential [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Bare particular anti-essentialism makes no sense within modal logic semantics [Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
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God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony]
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Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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The bundle theory makes the identity of indiscernibles a necessity, since the thing is the properties [Stalnaker]
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