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Ideas for 'Metaphysics', 'Persistence, Change and Explanation' and 'On the Senses'

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7 ideas

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 / 3. Three-Dimensionalism

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The persistence of objects seems to be needed if the past is to explain the present [Haslanger]

13930

Persistence makes change and its products intelligible [Haslanger]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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We must explain change amongst 'momentary entities', or else the world is inexplicable [Haslanger]

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If the things which exist prior to now are totally distinct, they need not have existed [Haslanger]

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]