Combining Texts

Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' and 'Possibility'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

37 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
13375 The idea that every entity must have identity conditions is an unfortunate misunderstanding [Jubien]
16649 Scholastics say there is a genuine thing if it is 'separable' [Pasnau]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties
16785 If you reject essences, questions of individuation become extremely difficult [Pasnau]
16680 Scholastics thought Quantity could be the principle of individuation [Pasnau]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
13393 Any entity has the unique property of being that specific entity [Jubien]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
13388 It is incoherent to think that a given entity depends on its kind for its existence [Jubien]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
13384 Objects need conventions for their matter, their temporal possibility, and their spatial possibility [Jubien]
13385 Basically, the world doesn't have ready-made 'objects'; we carve objects any way we like [Jubien]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
16617 Corpuscularian critics of scholasticism say only substances exist [Pasnau]
16741 Scholastics wanted to treat Aristotelianism as physics, rather than as metaphysics [Pasnau]
16777 If crowds are things at all, they seem to be Substances, since they bear properties [Pasnau]
16628 Corpuscularianism promised a decent account of substance [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
16615 Scholastics use 'substantia' for thick concrete entities, and for thin metaphysical ones [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
16775 For corpuscularians, a substance is just its integral parts [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
13383 If the statue is loved and the clay hated, that is about the object first qua statue, then qua clay [Jubien]
13400 If one entity is an object, a statue, and some clay, these come apart in at least three ways [Jubien]
16769 If clay survives destruction of the statue, the statue wasn't a substance, but a mere accident [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
13401 The idea of coincident objects is a last resort, as it is opposed to commonsense naturalism [Jubien]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
16602 Corpuscularianism rejected not only form, but also the dependence of matter on form [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / b. Form as principle
16612 Hylomorphism may not be a rival to science, but an abstract account of unity and endurance [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal
16613 Hylomorphism declined because scholastics made it into a testable physical theory [Pasnau]
16747 Scholastics made forms substantial, in a way unintended by Aristotle [Pasnau]
16759 Scholastics began to see substantial form more as Aristotle's 'efficient' cause [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
16748 Aquinas says a substance has one form; Scotists say it has many forms [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object
16671 Scholastic Quantity either gives a body parts, or spreads them out in a unified way [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
16596 A substratum can't be 'bare', because it has a job to do [Pasnau]
16579 There may be different types of substrate, or temporary substrates [Pasnau]
16584 If a substrate gives causal support for change, quite a lot of the ingredients must endure [Pasnau]
16580 A substrate may be 'prime matter', which endures through every change [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
13380 Parts seem to matter when it is just an object, but not matter when it is a kind of object [Jubien]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
13376 We should not regard essentialism as just nontrivial de re necessity [Jubien]
16749 Aristotelians deny that all necessary properties are essential [Pasnau]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
16694 Typical successive things are time and motion [Pasnau]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
13381 Thinking of them as 'ships' the repaired ship is the original, but as 'objects' the reassembly is the original [Jubien]
13382 Rearranging the planks as a ship is confusing; we'd say it was the same 'object' with a different arrangement [Jubien]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
16583 Weak ex nihilo says it all comes from something; strong version says the old must partly endure [Pasnau]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
13379 If two objects are indiscernible across spacetime, how could we decide whether or not they are the same? [Jubien]