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Ideas for 'Katzav on limitations of dispositions', 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)' and 'Naming and Necessity lectures'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

16991

No one seems to know the identity conditions for a material object (or for people) over time [Kripke]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

17257

It is the same river if it has the same source, no matter what flows in it [Hobbes]

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

12853

Some individuate the ship by unity of matter, and others by unity of form [Hobbes]

17256

If a new ship were made of the discarded planks, would two ships be numerically the same? [Hobbes]

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

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If we lose track of origin, how do we show we are maintaining a reference? [Kripke, by Wiggins]

12018

Kripke argues, of the Queen, that parents of an organism are essentially so [Kripke, by Forbes,G]

17046

Could the actual Queen have been born of different parents? [Kripke]

8274	Socrates can't have a necessary origin, because he might have had no 'origin' [Lowe on Kripke]