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Ideas for 'Confessions of a Philosopher', 'Word and Object' and 'De Veritate (On Truth)'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

7924	The notion of a physical object is by far the most useful one for science [Quine]

8464	Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected [Quine]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

8482	Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]

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Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

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We can paraphrase 'x=y' as a sequence of the form 'if Fx then Fy' [Quine]