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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'The Philosophy of Philosophy' and 'Tusculan Disputations'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

15851	Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form [Plato]
	Full Idea: The part would not be the part of many things or all, but of some one character ['ideas'] and of some one thing, which we call a 'whole', since it has come to be one complete [perfected] thing composed [created] of all.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 157d)
	A reaction: A serious shot by Plato at what identity is. Harte quotes it (125) and shows that 'character' is Gk 'idea', and 'composed' will translate as 'created'. 'Form' links this Platonic passage to Aristotle's hylomorphism.

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

9602	Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson]
	Full Idea: The constraints of common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness.
	From: Timothy Williamson (The Philosophy of Philosophy [2007], After)
	A reaction: Wiliamson has described himself (in my hearing) as a 'rottweiller realist', but presumably the problem of vagueness interests a lot of people precisely because it pushes us away from common sense and classical logic.