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Single Idea 14961
[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / a. Scattered objects
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Full Idea
There is at the moment a pipe on my desk. Its stem has been removed but it remains a pipe for all that; otherwise no pipe could survive a thorough cleaning.
Gist of Idea
Clearly a pipe can survive being taken apart
Source
Richard Cartwright (Scattered Objects [1974], p.175)
Book Ref
Cartwright,Richard: 'Philosophical Essays' [MIT 1987], p.175
A Reaction
To say that the pipe survives dismantling is not to say that it is fully a pipe during its dismantled phase. He gives a further example of a book in two volumes.
The
19 ideas
from Richard Cartwright
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9783
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While no two classes coincide in membership, there are distinct but coextensive attributes
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9784
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A false proposition isn't truer because it is part of a coherent system
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9786
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Philosophers working like teams of scientists is absurd, yet isolation is hard
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13952
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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent
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13953
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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind
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13954
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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential
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13955
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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic
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13941
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Are the truth-bearers sentences, utterances, ideas, beliefs, judgements, propositions or statements?
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13942
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Logicians take sentences to be truth-bearers for rigour, rather than for philosophical reasons
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13943
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We can attribute 'true' and 'false' to whatever it was that was said
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13944
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We can pull apart assertion from utterance, and the action, the event and the subject-matter for each
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13946
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To assert that p, it is neither necessary nor sufficient to utter some particular words
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13947
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'It's raining' makes a different assertion on different occasions, but its meaning remains the same
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13948
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For any statement, there is no one meaning which any sentence asserting it must have
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13951
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Assertions, unlike sentence meanings, can be accurate, probable, exaggerated, false....
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13950
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People don't assert the meaning of the words they utter
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13945
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A token isn't a unique occurrence, as the case of a word or a number shows
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14961
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Clearly a pipe can survive being taken apart
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14962
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Bodies don't becomes scattered by losing small or minor parts
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