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Ideas for U Kriegel / K Williford, Graeme Forbes and Theodore Sider
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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In all instances of identity, there must be some facts to ensure the identity [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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If sortal terms fix the kind and the persistence conditions, we need to know what kinds there are [Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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If Tib is all of Tibbles bar her tail, when Tibbles loses her tail, two different things become one [Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Artists 'create' statues because they are essentially statues, and so lack identity with the lump of clay [Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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If we combined two clocks, it seems that two clocks may have become one clock. [Forbes,G]
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The stage view of objects is best for dealing with coincident entities [Sider]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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'Composition as identity' says that an object just is the objects which compose it [Sider]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Only individual essences will ground identities across worlds in other properties [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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An individual essence is a set of essential properties which only that object can have [Forbes,G]
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Non-trivial individual essence is properties other than de dicto, or universal, or relational [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Essential properties depend on a category, and perhaps also on particular facts [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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A property is essential iff the object would not exist if it lacked that property [Forbes,G]
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Properties are trivially essential if they are not grounded in a thing's specific nature [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essential properties are those without which an object could not exist [Forbes,G]
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A relation is essential to two items if it holds in every world where they exist [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / c. Essentials are necessary
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Trivially essential properties are existence, self-identity, and de dicto necessities [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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A property is 'extraneously essential' if it is had only because of the properties of other objects [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts
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Same parts does not ensure same artefact, if those parts could constitute a different artefact [Forbes,G]
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Artefacts have fuzzy essences [Forbes,G]
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One might be essentialist about the original bronze from which a statue was made [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
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Mereological essentialism says an object's parts are necessary for its existence [Sider]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essence (even if nonmodal) is not fundamental in metaphysics [Sider]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism
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Three-dimensionalists assert 'enduring', being wholly present at each moment, and deny 'temporal parts' [Sider]
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Some might say that its inconsistency with time travel is a reason to favour three-dimensionalism [Sider]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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Four-dimensionalists assert 'temporal parts', 'perduring', and being spread out over time [Sider]
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4D says intrinsic change is difference between successive parts [Sider]
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4D says each spatiotemporal object must have a temporal part at every moment at which it exists [Sider]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
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Temporal parts exist, but are not prior building blocks for objects [Sider]
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Temporal parts are instantaneous [Sider]
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How can an instantaneous stage believe anything, if beliefs take time? [Sider]
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Four-dimensionalism says temporal parts are caused (through laws of motion) by previous temporal parts [Sider]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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The ship undergoes 'asymmetric' fission, where one candidate is seen as stronger [Sider]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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An individual might change their sex in a world, but couldn't have differed in sex at origin [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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Identities must hold because of other facts, which must be instrinsic [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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The identity of indiscernibles is necessarily true, if being a member of some set counts as a property [Sider]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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If you say Leibniz's Law doesn't apply to 'timebound' properties, you are no longer discussing identity [Sider]
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