Single Idea 16514

[catalogued under 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts]

Full Idea

Ordinary artefacts are individuated, rather indeterminately and arbitrarily, by reference to a parcel of matter so organised as to subserve a certain function.

Gist of Idea

Artefacts are individuated by some matter having a certain function

Source

David Wiggins (Sameness and Substance [1980], 3.3)

Book Reference

Wiggins,David: 'Sameness and Substance' [Blackwell 1980], p.90