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'Are Persons Bodies?', 'Twilight of the Idols' and 'Sameness and Substance Renewed'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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We can accept criteria of distinctness and persistence, without making the counterfactual claims [Mackie,P on Wiggins]
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Activity individuates natural things, functions do artefacts, and intentions do artworks [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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The idea of 'thisness' is better expressed with designation/predication and particular/universal [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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A sortal essence is a thing's principle of individuation [Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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Wiggins's sortal essentialism rests on a thing's principle of individuation [Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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The evening star is the same planet but not the same star as the morning star, since it is not a star [Wiggins]
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'Sortalism' says parts only compose a whole if it falls under a sort or kind [Wiggins, by Hossack]
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Identity a=b is only possible with some concept to give persistence and existence conditions [Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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A thing is necessarily its highest sortal kind, which entails an essential constitution [Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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Many predicates are purely generic, or pure determiners, rather than sortals [Wiggins]
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The possibility of a property needs an essential sortal concept to conceive it [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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Objects can only coincide if they are of different kinds; trees can't coincide with other trees [Wiggins, by Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
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Is the Pope's crown one crown, if it is made of many crowns? [Wiggins]
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Boundaries are not crucial to mountains, so they are determinate without a determinate extent [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Identity is an atemporal relation, but composition is relative to times [Wiggins, by Sider]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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If I destroy an item, I do not destroy each part of it [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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We can forget about individual or particularized essences [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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Essences are not explanations, but individuations [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Essentialism is best represented as a predicate-modifier: □(a exists → a is F) [Wiggins, by Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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The nominal essence is the idea behind a name used for sorting [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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It is easier to go from horses to horse-stages than from horse-stages to horses [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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The question is not what gets the title 'Theseus' Ship', but what is identical with the original [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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Identity over a time and at a time aren't different concepts [Wiggins]
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Hesperus=Hesperus, and Phosphorus=Hesperus, so necessarily Phosphorus=Hesperus [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
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The formal properties of identity are reflexivity and Leibniz's Law [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
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Relative Identity is incompatible with the Indiscernibility of Identicals [Wiggins, by Strawson,P]
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Relativity of Identity makes identity entirely depend on a category [Wiggins]
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To identify two items, we must have a common sort for them [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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Do both 'same f as' and '=' support Leibniz's Law? [Wiggins]
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Substitutivity, and hence most reasoning, needs Leibniz's Law [Wiggins]
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