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Single Idea 16195
[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Full Idea
Adopting presentism solves the problem of change, since it means that, once the banana is yellow, there just is no green banana, and the question of the relationship between yesterday's green banana and today's yellow one therefore does not arise.
Gist of Idea
Presentism solves the change problem: the green banana ceases, so can't 'relate' to the yellow one
Source
Katherine Hawley (How Things Persist [2001], 1.7)
Book Ref
Hawley,Katherine: 'How Things Persist' [OUP 2004], p.34
A Reaction
Change remains kind of odd, but it is no longer the puzzlement of two things being the same when they are admitted to be different. There is only ever one thing. This is my preferred account, I think. I certainly hope past bananas don't exist.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[how identity fares when an object's properties change]:
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16159
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For animate things, only the form, not the matter or properties, must persist through change
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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16173
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Coming to be is by shape-change, addition, subtraction, composition or alteration
[Aristotle]
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17042
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Natural things are their own source of stability through change
[Aristotle]
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16059
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Change of matter doesn't destroy identity - in Dion and Theon change is a condition of identity
[Chrysippus, by Long/Sedley]
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1330
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If a republic can retain identity through many changes, so can an individual
[Hume]
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1321
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If identity survives change or interruption, then resemblance, contiguity or causation must unite the parts of it
[Hume]
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15220
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To say something remains the same but lacks its capacities and powers seems a contradiction
[Harré/Madden]
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15222
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Some individuals can gain or lose capacities or powers, without losing their identity
[Harré/Madden]
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15296
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A particular might change all of its characteristics, retaining mere numerical identity
[Harré/Madden]
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14737
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Properties cannot be relations to times, if there are temporary properties which are intrinsic
[Lewis, by Sider]
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3309
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If a soldier continues to exist after serving as a soldier, does the wind cease to exist after it ceases to blow?
[Benardete,JA]
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6618
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A 'substance' is a thing that remains the same when its properties change
[Lowe]
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16193
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'Adverbialism' explains change by saying an object has-at-some-time a given property
[Hawley]
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16195
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Presentism solves the change problem: the green banana ceases, so can't 'relate' to the yellow one
[Hawley]
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16202
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The problem of change arises if there must be 'identity' of a thing over time
[Hawley]
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18930
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Change is instantiation of a non-uniform distributional property, like 'being red-then-orange'
[Cameron]
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23018
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How does a changing object retain identity or have incompatible properties over time?
[Baron/Miller]
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