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Ideas of Sally Haslanger, by Text

[American, fl. 2003, Professor at Masschusettts Institute of Technology.]

1989	Persistence, Change and Explanation

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p.160

13925

Ontology disputes rest on more basic explanation disputes

1

p.160

13924

The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present

1 n2

p.180

13931

By using aporiai as his start, Aristotle can defer to the wise, as well as to the many

5

p.170

13926

Best explanations, especially natural ones, need grounding, notably by persistent objects

7

p.172

13927

We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable

7

p.173

13928

If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed

7

p.177

13929

Natural explanations give the causal interconnections

8

p.178

13930

Persistence makes change and its products intelligible