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Single Idea 12051
[filed under theme 9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Full Idea
Substance are what the world is articulated into when the segments of kinds corresponds to the real divisions in reality.
Gist of Idea
If the kinds are divided realistically, they fall into substances
Source
David Wiggins (Substance [1995], 4.5.1)
Book Ref
'Philosophy: a Guide Through the Subject', ed/tr. Grayling,A.C. [OUP 1995], p.220
A Reaction
This is very helpful in clarifying Wiggins's very obscurely expressed views. He appears to be saying that if we divide the sheep from the goats correctly, we reveal sheep-substance and goat-substance (one substance per species). Crazy!
The
14 ideas
from 'Substance'
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12057
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Matter underlies things, composes things, and brings them to be
[Wiggins]
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12047
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We refer to persisting substances, in perception and in thought, and they aid understanding
[Wiggins]
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12056
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An ancestral relation is either direct or transitively indirect
[Wiggins]
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12055
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Sortal predications are answers to the question 'what is x?'
[Wiggins]
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12059
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A river may change constantly, but not in respect of being a river
[Wiggins]
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12063
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Sortal classification becomes science, with cross reference clarifying individuals
[Wiggins]
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12064
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The category of substance is more important for epistemology than for ontology
[Wiggins]
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12065
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Seeing a group of soldiers as an army is irresistible, in ontology and explanation
[Wiggins]
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12049
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Naming the secondary substance provides a mass of general information
[Wiggins]
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12050
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Substances contain a source of change or principle of activity
[Wiggins]
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12052
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We never single out just 'this', but always 'this something-or-other'
[Wiggins]
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12051
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If the kinds are divided realistically, they fall into substances
[Wiggins]
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12053
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'Human being' is a better answer to 'what is it?' than 'poet', as the latter comes in degrees
[Wiggins]
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12054
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Secondary substances correctly divide primary substances by activity-principles and relations
[Wiggins]
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