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17 ideas
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Genus gives the essence better than the differentiae do [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
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Empiricists gave up 'substance', as unknowable substratum, or reducible to a bundle [Oderberg]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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In the case of a house the parts can exist without the whole, so parts are not the whole [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Essences are real, about being, knowable, definable and classifiable [Oderberg, by PG]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Nominalism is consistent with individual but not with universal essences [Oderberg]
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Everything that is has one single essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Essentialism is the main account of the unity of objects [Oderberg]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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An 'idion' belongs uniquely to a thing, but is not part of its essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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Essence is not explanatory but constitutive [Oderberg]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Properties are not part of an essence, but they flow from it [Oderberg]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Could we replace essence with collections of powers? [Oderberg]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 11. End of an Object
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Destruction is dissolution of essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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If two things are the same, they must have the same source and origin [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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Leibniz's Law is an essentialist truth [Oderberg]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 9. Sameness
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'Same' is mainly for names or definitions, but also for propria, and for accidents [Aristotle]
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Two identical things have the same accidents, they are the same; if the accidents differ, they're different [Aristotle]
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Numerical sameness and generic sameness are not the same [Aristotle]
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