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Single Idea 12866
[filed under theme 9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Full Idea
Composition is asymmetric and transitive: if a is made up of b, and b of c, then a is made up of c; and if a is made of b, then b is not made up of a. We cannot say the snow is made up of the snowball.
Gist of Idea
Composition is asymmetric and transitive
Source
Peter Simons (Parts [1987], 6.5)
Book Ref
Simons,Peter: 'Parts: a Study in Ontology' [OUP 1987], p.238
A Reaction
...And snowballs composed of snow can then compose a snowman (transitivity).
The
23 ideas
with the same theme
[objects seen as made up of their parts]:
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15846
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In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts
[Plato, by Harte,V]
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374
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If one object is divided into its parts, someone can then say that one are many and many is one
[Plato]
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597
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Is there a house over and above its bricks?
[Aristotle]
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12507
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A mass consists of its atoms, so the addition or removal of one changes its identity
[Locke]
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14749
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Identity is an atemporal relation, but composition is relative to times
[Wiggins, by Sider]
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14748
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The many are many and the one is one, so they can't be identical
[Lewis]
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6129
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Lewis affirms 'composition as identity' - that an object is no more than its parts
[Lewis, by Merricks]
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15446
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Composition is not just making new things from old; there are too many counterexamples
[Lewis]
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17560
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If contact causes composition, do two colliding balls briefly make one object?
[Inwagen]
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17561
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If bricks compose a house, that is at least one thing, but it might be many things
[Inwagen]
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3304
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Why should packed-together particles be a thing (Mt Everest), but not scattered ones?
[Benardete,JA]
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8279
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The identity of composite objects isn't fixed by original composition, because how do you identify the origin?
[Lowe]
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14747
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'Composition as identity' says that an object just is the objects which compose it
[Sider]
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19302
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If a chair could be made of slightly different material, that could lead to big changes
[Hale]
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10661
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'Composition is identity' says multitudes are the reality, loosely composing single things
[Varzi]
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6127
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'Unrestricted composition' says any two things can make up a third thing
[Merricks]
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6131
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Composition as identity is false, as identity is never between a single thing and many things
[Merricks]
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6132
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Composition as identity is false, as it implies that things never change their parts
[Merricks]
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6141
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There is no visible difference between statues, and atoms arranged statuewise
[Merricks]
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12866
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Composition is asymmetric and transitive
[Simons]
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14892
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The idea of composition, that parts of the world are 'made of' something, is no longer helpful
[Ladyman/Ross]
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10664
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Complex particulars are either masses, or composites, or sets
[Hossack]
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10678
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The relation of composition is indispensable to the part-whole relation for individuals
[Hossack]
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