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Single Idea 603
[filed under theme 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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Full Idea
What makes man a unity, and not a plurality of, say, animal and biped? Especially if, as some claim, Animal Itself and Biped Itself exist.
Gist of Idea
How is man a unity of animal and biped, especially if the Forms of animal and of biped exist?
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1045a13)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.248
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[unification of an object by some intrinsic aspect of it]:
472
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No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence
[Philolaus]
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13265
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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13261
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics
[Plato, by Koslicki]
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590
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Things are one numerically in matter, formally in their account, generically in predicates, and by analogy in relations
[Aristotle]
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10949
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Primary things just are what-it-is-to-be-that-thing
[Aristotle]
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603
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How is man a unity of animal and biped, especially if the Forms of animal and of biped exist?
[Aristotle]
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17838
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Things may be naturally unified because they involve an indivisible process
[Aristotle]
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17840
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A unity may just be a particular, a numerically indivisible thing
[Aristotle]
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17841
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The formal cause may be what unifies a substance
[Aristotle]
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16163
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Aristotle says that the form is what makes an entity what it is
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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17041
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Natural objects include animals and their parts, plants, and the simple elements
[Aristotle]
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18459
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Diversity arises from the power of unity
[Porphyry]
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16650
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'Unity' is a particularly difficult word, because things can have hidden unity
[Duns Scotus]
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16751
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Unity by aggregation, order, inherence, composition, and simplicity
[Conimbricense, by Pasnau]
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12745
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Philosophy needs the precision of the unity given by substances
[Leibniz]
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16513
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Identity of a substance is the law of its persistence
[Leibniz]
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14164
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The only unities are simples, or wholes composed of parts
[Russell]
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17517
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Could the same matter have more than one form or principle of unity?
[Ayers]
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15075
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Modal features are not part of entities, because they are accounted for by the entity
[Fine,K]
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12886
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A whole requires some unique relation which binds together all of the parts
[Simons]
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24065
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Structured wholes are united by the teamwork needed for their capacities
[Koslicki]
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14495
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I aim to put the notion of structure or form back into the concepts of part, whole and object
[Koslicki]
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13264
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If a whole is just a structure, a dinner party wouldn't need the guests to turn up
[Koslicki]
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