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Single Idea 18930
[filed under theme 9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Full Idea
What change is on the account being offered is to instantiate a non-uniform distributional property. Being red at one time and orange at a later time is to be analysed as instantiating the distributional property 'being red-then-orange'.
Gist of Idea
Change is instantiation of a non-uniform distributional property, like 'being red-then-orange'
Source
Ross P. Cameron (Truthmaking for Presentists [2011], 4)
Book Ref
'Oxford Studies in Metaphysics Vol.6', ed/tr. Zimmerman,D/Bennett,K [OUP 2011], p.77
A Reaction
One of those moments when you begin to doubt whether 'being analysed' successfully actually adds much to our wisdom. His property sounds suspiciously 'gruesome' - i.e. subject to the vagaries of how we chose to describe the thing.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[how identity fares when an object's properties change]:
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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