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'Topics', 'Idea for a Universal History' and 'Sameness and Substance'
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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'What is it?' gives the kind, nature, persistence conditions and identity over time of a thing [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects
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A restored church is the same 'church', but not the same 'building' or 'brickwork' [Wiggins]
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A thing begins only once; for a clock, it is when its making is first completed [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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Priests prefer the working ship; antiquarians prefer the reconstruction [Wiggins]
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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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