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'Confessions', 'A Plea for Excuses' and 'Treatise of Human Nature'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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Individuation is only seeing that a thing is stable and continuous over time [Hume]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
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The only meaning we have for substance is a collection of qualities [Hume]
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Aristotelians propose accidents supported by substance, but they don't understand either of them [Hume]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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Changing a part can change the whole, not absolutely, but by its proportion of the whole [Hume]
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A change more obviously destroys an identity if it is quick and observed [Hume]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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If identity survives change or interruption, then resemblance, contiguity or causation must unite the parts of it [Hume]
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If a republic can retain identity through many changes, so can an individual [Hume]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects
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If a ruined church is rebuilt, its relation to its parish makes it the same church [Hume]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
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We accept the identity of a river through change, because it is the river's nature [Hume]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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The purpose of the ship makes it the same one through all variations [Hume]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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Both number and unity are incompatible with the relation of identity [Hume]
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Multiple objects cannot convey identity, because we see them as different [Hume]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity
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'An object is the same with itself' is meaningless; it expresses unity, not identity [Hume]
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Saying an object is the same with itself is only meaningful over a period of time [Hume]
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