Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Stilpo, N.L. Wilson and Andr Gallois

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9 ideas

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

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A CAR and its major PART can become identical, yet seem to have different properties [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

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Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois]

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If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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4D: time is space-like; a thing is its history; past and future are real; or things extend in time [Gallois]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Gallois is committed to identity with respect to times, and denial of simple identity [Gallois, by Sider]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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Occasional Identity: two objects can be identical at one time, and different at others [Gallois, by Hawley]

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If two things are equal, each side involves a necessity, so the equality is necessary [Gallois]

19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity

6316	We translate in a way that makes the largest possible number of statements true [Wilson,NL]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 5. Atheism

3029	Stilpo said if Athena is a daughter of Zeus, then a statue is only the child of a sculptor, and so is not a god [Stilpo, by Diog. Laertius]