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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Parts' and 'Vagueness: a global approach'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change

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For animate things, only the form, not the matter or properties, must persist through change [Aristotle, by Frede,M]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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Four dimensional-objects are stranger than most people think [Simons]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects

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Intermittent objects would be respectable if they occurred in nature, as well as in artefacts [Simons]

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Objects like chess games, with gaps in them, are thereby less unified [Simons]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus

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An entrepreneur and a museum curator would each be happy with their ship at the end [Simons]

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The 'best candidate' theories mistakenly assume there is one answer to 'Which is the real ship?' [Simons]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential

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How a thing is generated does not explain its essence [Aristotle, by Politis]

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Aristotle wants definition, not identity, so origin is not essential to him [Aristotle, by Witt]

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The zygote is an essential initial part, for a sexually reproduced organism [Simons]