Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Peter Geach, Gottfried Leibniz and Aristotle

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
16154 Aristotle gave up his earlier notion of individuals, because it relied on universals [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
16158 Form and matter may not make up a concrete particular, because there are also accidents like weight [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta
16086 Objects lacking matter are intrinsic unities [Aristotle]
12990 Real (non-logical) abstract terms are either essences or accidents [Leibniz]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta
12939 Wholly uniform things like space and numbers are mere abstractions [Leibniz]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects
10945 Some philosophers say that in some qualified way non-existent things 'are' [Aristotle]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples
13170 The analysis of things leads to atoms of substance, which found both composition and action [Leibniz]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
12062 Aristotle's form improves on being non-predicable as a way to identify a 'this' [Aristotle, by Wiggins]
12979 The only way we can determine individuals is by keeping hold of them [Leibniz]
12775 Things seem to be unified if we see duration, position, interaction and connection [Leibniz]
11247 To know a thing is to know its primary cause or explanation [Aristotle]
12701 Leibniz moved from individuation by whole entity to individuation by substantial form [Leibniz, by Garber]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties
12971 If two individuals could be indistinguishable, there could be no principle of individuation [Leibniz]
19379 The law of the series, which determines future states of a substance, is what individuates it [Leibniz]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location
13098 We use things to distinguish places and times, not vice versa [Leibniz]
12693 A body is that which exists in space [Leibniz]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
16160 For Aristotle, things are not made individual by some essential distinguishing mark [Aristotle, by Frede,M]
13105 The laws-of-the-series plays a haecceitist role [Leibniz, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
13075 No two things are quite the same, so there must be an internal principle of distinction [Leibniz]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
12351 Genus and species are substances, because only they reveal the primary substance [Aristotle, by Wedin]
12280 Genus gives the essence better than the differentiae do [Aristotle]
16156 Individuals within a species differ in their matter, form and motivating cause [Aristotle]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
1687 Why are being terrestrial and a biped combined in the definition of man, but being literate and musical aren't? [Aristotle]
12953 Fluidity is basic, and we divide into bodies according to our needs [Leibniz]
8969 We should abandon absolute identity, confining it to within some category [Geach, by Hawthorne]