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Single Idea 14752
[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Full Idea
Presumably it is claimed that the artist 'created' the statue because the object created is essentially a statue, and thus cannot be identified with the unformed lump of clay with which the artist began.
Gist of Idea
Artists 'create' statues because they are essentially statues, and so lack identity with the lump of clay
Source
Theodore Sider (Four Dimensionalism [2001])
Book Ref
Sider,Theodore: 'Four Dimensionalism' [OUP 2003], p.162
A Reaction
This is based on Burke's views. This is sortal essentialism, rather than my own view of essence as an inner explanatory mechanism or form. If an old abstract sculpture was no longer recognised as a statue, would it necessarily still be a statue?
Related Idea
Idea 14751
Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]
The
29 ideas
from 'Four Dimensionalism'
14752
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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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14721
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Metaphysical enquiry can survive if its conclusions are tentative
[Sider]
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14722
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Between presentism and eternalism is the 'growing block' view - the past is real, the future is not
[Sider]
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14723
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Talk using tenses can be eliminated, by reducing it to indexical connections for an utterance
[Sider]
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14725
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Maybe motion is a dynamical quantity intrinsic to a thing at a particular time
[Sider]
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14724
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Presentists must deny truths about multiple times
[Sider]
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14194
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Proper ontology should only use categorical (actual) properties, not hypothetical ones
[Sider]
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14726
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Four-dimensionalists assert 'temporal parts', 'perduring', and being spread out over time
[Sider]
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14727
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Three-dimensionalists assert 'enduring', being wholly present at each moment, and deny 'temporal parts'
[Sider]
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14728
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4D says intrinsic change is difference between successive parts
[Sider]
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14729
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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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14730
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Temporal parts exist, but are not prior building blocks for objects
[Sider]
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14731
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Temporal parts are instantaneous
[Sider]
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14734
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The B-series involves eternalism, and the reduction of tense
[Sider]
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14735
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Space is 3D and lacks a direction; time seems connected to causation
[Sider]
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14736
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The B-theory is adequate, except that it omits to say which time is present
[Sider]
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14740
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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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14741
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The ship undergoes 'asymmetric' fission, where one candidate is seen as stronger
[Sider]
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14743
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The stage view of objects is best for dealing with coincident entities
[Sider]
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14747
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'Composition as identity' says that an object just is the objects which compose it
[Sider]
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14745
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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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14754
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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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14756
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For Presentists there must always be a temporal vantage point for any description
[Sider]
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14757
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Mereological essentialism says an object's parts are necessary for its existence
[Sider]
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14758
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How can an instantaneous stage believe anything, if beliefs take time?
[Sider]
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14760
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Four-dimensionalism sees things and processes as belonging in the same category
[Sider]
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14762
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Four-dimensionalism says temporal parts are caused (through laws of motion) by previous temporal parts
[Sider]
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14763
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Counterparts rest on similarity, so there are many such relations in different contexts
[Sider]
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14738
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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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