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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Isolation and Non-arbitrary Division' and 'Boole calculus and the Concept script'

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7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 4. Ontological Dependence

11154	Prior things can exist without posterior things, but not vice versa [Aristotle]
	Full Idea: Prior things can have being without posterior things, without the posterior being able to have being without the prior, to adopt Plato's distinction.
	From: Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 1019a04)
	A reaction: Fine quotes this, in expounding Aristotle's account of essence.

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 8. Stuff / a. Pure stuff

17436	We talk of snow as what stays the same, when it is a heap or drift or expanse [Koslicki]
	Full Idea: Talk of snow concerns what stays the same when some snow changes, as it might be, from a heap of snow to a drift, to an expanse.
	From: Kathrin Koslicki (Isolation and Non-arbitrary Division [1997], 2.2)
	A reaction: The whiteness also stays the same, but isn't stuff.