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