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'Topics', 'Completeness of Axioms of Logic' and 'Person and Object'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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Maybe we can only individuate things by relating them to ourselves [Chisholm]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Being the tallest man is an 'individual concept', but not a haecceity [Chisholm]
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A haecceity is a property had necessarily, and strictly confined to one entity [Chisholm]
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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 / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
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A peach is sweet and fuzzy, but it doesn't 'have' those qualities [Chisholm]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
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If x is ever part of y, then y is necessarily such that x is part of y at any time that y exists [Chisholm, by Simons]
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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 / 3. Individual Essences
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A traditional individual essence includes all of a thing's necessary characteristics [Chisholm]
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Everything that is has one single essence [Aristotle]
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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 / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects
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Intermittence is seen in a toy fort, which is dismantled then rebuilt with the same bricks [Chisholm, by Simons]
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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 / 5. Self-Identity
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The property of being identical with me is an individual concept [Chisholm]
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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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There is 'loose' identity between things if their properties, or truths about them, might differ [Chisholm]
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