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Full Idea
The statue has relational properties which the lump of clay does not have essentially.
Gist of Idea
Statues essentially have relational properties lacked by lumps
Source
Lynne Rudder Baker (Why Constitution is not Identity [1997], V)
Book Ref
-: 'Journal of Philosophy' [-], p.620
A Reaction
She has in mind relations to the community of artistic life. I don't think this is convincing. Is something only a statue if it is validated by an artistic community? That sounds like relative identity, which she doesn't like.
| 16076 | Constitution is not identity, as consideration of essential predicates shows [Rudder Baker] |
| 16078 | Clay is intrinsically and atomically the same as statue (and that lacks 'modal properties') [Rudder Baker] |
| 16080 | Is it possible for two things that are identical to become two separate things? [Rudder Baker] |
| 16081 | The constitution view gives a unified account of the relation of persons/bodies, statues/bronze etc [Rudder Baker] |
| 16077 | The clay is not a statue - it borrows that property from the statue it constitutes [Rudder Baker] |
| 16082 | Statues essentially have relational properties lacked by lumps [Rudder Baker] |