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Ideas for 'Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson', 'Contextualism Contested (and reply)' and 'Twilight of the Idols'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

14082	No sortal could ever exactly pin down which set of particles count as this 'cup' [Schaffer,J]
	Full Idea: Many decent candidates could the referent of this 'cup', differing over whether outlying particles are parts. No further sortal I could invoke will be selective enough to rule out all but one referent for it.
	From: Jonathan Schaffer (Deflationary Metaontology of Thomasson [2009], 3.1 n8)
	A reaction: I never had much faith in sortals for establishing individual identity, so this point comes as no surprise. The implication is strongly realist - that the cup has an identity which is permanently beyond our capacity to specify it.

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

18314	In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche]
	Full Idea: It is the metaphysics of language (that is, of reason) ....which believes in the 'ego', in the ego as being, in the ego as substance, and which projects its belief in the ego-substance on to all things - only thus does it create the concept 'thing'.
	From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.5)