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Single Idea 22143
[filed under theme 9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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Full Idea
To be really the same excludes being really other, but does not exclude being other modally or mentally.
Gist of Idea
Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference
Source
report of Francisco Suárez (Disputationes metaphysicae [1597], 7.65) by Stephen Boulter - Why Medieval Philosophy Matters 4
Book Ref
Boulter,Stephen: 'Why Medieval Philosophy Matters' [Bloomsbury 2019], p.89
A Reaction
So the statue and the clay are identical, but they could become separate, or be imagined as separate.
The
18 ideas
from Francisco Suárez
16667
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Substances are incomplete unless they have modes
[Suárez, by Pasnau]
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17007
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Forms must rule over faculties and accidents, and are the source of action and unity
[Suárez]
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16780
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Partial forms of leaf and fruit are united in the whole form of the tree
[Suárez]
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16758
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The best support for substantial forms is the co-ordinated unity of a natural being
[Suárez]
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16682
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Other things could occupy the same location as an angel
[Suárez]
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16743
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We can get at the essential nature of 'quantity' by knowing bulk and extension
[Suárez]
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16742
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We only know essences through non-essential features, esp. those closest to the essence
[Suárez]
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16665
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There are entities, and then positive 'modes', modifying aspects outside the thing's essence
[Suárez]
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16666
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A mode determines the state and character of a quantity, without adding to it
[Suárez]
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22143
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Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22144
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Real Essential distinction: A and B are of different natural kinds
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22146
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Minor Real distinction: B needs A, but A doesn't need B
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22145
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Major Real distinction: A and B have independent existences
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22147
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Conceptual/Mental distinction: one thing can be conceived of in two different ways
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22148
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Modal distinction: A isn't B or its property, but still needs B
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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22149
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Scholastics assess possibility by what has actually happened in reality
[Suárez, by Boulter]
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7563
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The old 'influx' view of causation says it is a flow of accidental properties from A to B
[Suárez, by Jolley]
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13074
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Only natural kinds and their members have real essences
[Suárez, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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