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'The Bhagavad Gita', 'The Metaphysics of Modality' and 'How Things Might Have Been'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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In all instances of identity, there must be some facts to ensure the identity [Forbes,G]
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A principle of individuation may pinpoint identity and distinctness, now and over time [Mackie,P]
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Individuation may include counterfactual possibilities, as well as identity and persistence [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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A haecceity is the essential, simple, unanalysable property of being-this-thing [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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If we combined two clocks, it seems that two clocks may have become one clock. [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Only individual essences will ground identities across worlds in other properties [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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An individual essence is a set of essential properties which only that object can have [Forbes,G]
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Non-trivial individual essence is properties other than de dicto, or universal, or relational [Forbes,G]
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An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without [Mackie,P]
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No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object [Mackie,P]
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There are problems both with individual essences and without them [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Essential properties depend on a category, and perhaps also on particular facts [Forbes,G]
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Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary [Mackie,P]
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Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential? [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essential properties are those without which an object could not exist [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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The Kripke and Putnam view of kinds makes them explanatorily basic, but has modal implications [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts
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Same parts does not ensure same artefact, if those parts could constitute a different artefact [Forbes,G]
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Artefacts have fuzzy essences [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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An individual might change their sex in a world, but couldn't have differed in sex at origin [Forbes,G]
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Origin is not a necessity, it is just 'tenacious'; we keep it fixed in counterfactual discussions [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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Identities must hold because of other facts, which must be instrinsic [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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