Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Posidonius, Rahulabhadra and Michael Burke

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11 ideas

1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 1. Nature of Wisdom

7911	Theory vanishes when one has obtained wisdom [Rahulabhadra]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

16235

Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]

14753

The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

16072

'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

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

14751

Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

16071

Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]

16234

Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]

13278

Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

14750

Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]

25. Social Practice / E. Policies / 5. Education / b. Education principles

13304

Learned men gain more in one day than others do in a lifetime [Posidonius]

27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 1. Nature of Time / d. Time as measure

20820

Time is an interval of motion, or the measure of speed [Posidonius, by Stobaeus]