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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' and 'Lectures on the Philosophy of (World) History'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
23466 Objects are the substance of the world [Wittgenstein]
     Full Idea: Objects make up the substance of the world.
     From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 2.021)
     A reaction: He doesn't say here that the objects are physical, and may be including Frege's abstract objects. His concept of substance seems more like Spinoza than Aristotle.
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples
23467 Objects are simple [Wittgenstein]
     Full Idea: Objects are simple
     From: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus [1921], 2.02)
     A reaction: Presumably all his objects are 'simples', and what we think of as normal objects are counted by LW as 'facts'.
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
13209 There is no coming-to-be of anything, but only mixing and separating [Empedocles, by Aristotle]
     Full Idea: Empedocles says there is no coming-to-be of anything, but only a mingling and a divorce of what has been mingled.
     From: report of Empedocles (fragments/reports [c.453 BCE]) by Aristotle - Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr) 314b08
     A reaction: Aristotle comments that this prevents Empedocleans from distinguishing between superficial alteration and fundamental change of identity. Presumably, though, that wouldn't bother them.