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Single Idea 13327
[filed under theme 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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Full Idea
Second, an object can be a part of another in a way that is not relative to time ('timeless'). It is not appropriate to ask when it is a part. Thus pants and jacket are parts of the suit, atoms of a water molecule, and two pints part of a quart of milk.
Gist of Idea
A 'timeless' part just is a part, not a part at some time; some atoms are timeless parts of a water molecule
Source
Kit Fine (Things and Their Parts [1999], Intro)
Book Ref
-: 'Midwest Studs in Philosophy' [-], p.61
A Reaction
[cf Idea 13326 for the other concept of 'part'] Again I am uneasy that 'part' could have two meanings. A Life Member is a member in the same way that a normal paid up member is a member.
Related Idea
Idea 13326
A 'temporary' part is a part at one time, but may not be at another, like a carburetor [Fine,K]
The
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with the same theme
[what is involved in being part of something else]:
15849
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Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not
[Plato, by Harte,V]
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15850
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Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many
[Plato]
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2084
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If a word has no parts and has a single identity, it turns out to be the same kind of thing as a letter
[Plato]
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13274
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The contents of an explanatory formula are parts of the whole
[Aristotle]
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12697
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Indivisibles are not parts, but the extrema of parts
[Leibniz]
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9806
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Whatever is made up of parts is made up of parts of those parts
[Mill]
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8249
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Class membership is not transitive, unlike being part of a part of the whole
[Lesniewski, by George/Van Evra]
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10650
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In the military, persons are parts of parts of large units, but not parts of those large units
[Rescher]
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17566
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I think parthood involves causation, and not just a reasonably stable spatial relationship
[Inwagen]
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14230
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We can deny whole objects but accept parts, by referring to them as plurals within things
[Inwagen, by Liggins]
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13380
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Parts seem to matter when it is just an object, but not matter when it is a kind of object
[Jubien]
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18998
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Parthood lacks the restriction of kind which most relations have
[Yablo]
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13326
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A 'temporary' part is a part at one time, but may not be at another, like a carburetor
[Fine,K]
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13327
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A 'timeless' part just is a part, not a part at some time; some atoms are timeless parts of a water molecule
[Fine,K]
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18515
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Spatial parts are just regions, but objects depend on and are made up of substantial parts
[Heil]
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18516
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A 'gunky' universe would literally have no parts at all
[Heil]
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10647
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Parts may or may not be attached, demarcated, arbitrary, material, extended, spatial or temporal
[Varzi]
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10651
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If 'part' is reflexive, then identity is a limit case of parthood
[Varzi]
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10649
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'Part' stands for a reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive relation
[Varzi]
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10654
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The parthood relation will help to define at least seven basic predicates
[Varzi]
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6128
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Objects decompose (it seems) into non-overlapping parts that fill its whole region
[Merricks]
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12864
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We say 'b is part of a', 'b is a part of a', 'b are a part of a', or 'b are parts of a'.
[Simons]
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12795
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Parts must be of the same very general type as the wholes
[Laycock]
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14233
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Nihilists needn't deny parts - they can just say that some of the xs are among the ys
[Liggins]
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14498
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For three-dimensionalist parthood must be a three-place relation, including times
[Koslicki]
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13283
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The parts may be the same type as the whole, like a building made of buildings
[Koslicki]
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16068
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The weight of a wall is not the weight of its parts, since that would involve double-counting
[Wasserman]
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