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Ideas for 'The Fixation of Belief', 'fragments/reports' and 'Every Thing Must Go'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
14952 Things are constructs for tracking patterns (and not linguistic, because animals do it) [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
14950 Maybe individuation can be explained by thermodynamic depth [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
13782 Everything gives way, and nothing stands fast [Heraclitus]
14927 Physics seems to imply that we must give up self-subsistent individuals [Ladyman/Ross]
14944 There is no single view of individuals, because different sciences operate on different scales [Ladyman/Ross]
14946 There are no cats in quantum theory, and no mountains in astrophysics [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
14928 Things are abstractions from structures [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
11853 A mixed drink separates if it is not stirred [Heraclitus]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
14892 The idea of composition, that parts of the world are 'made of' something, is no longer helpful [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
14949 A sum of things is not a whole if the whole does not support some new generalisation [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
14951 We treat the core of a pattern as an essence, in order to keep track of it [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
14958 A continuous object might be a type, with instances at each time [Ladyman/Ross]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
427 It is not possible to step twice into the same river [Heraclitus]
11091 You can bathe in the same river twice, but not in the same river stage [Quine on Heraclitus]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 13. No Identity over Time
2064 If flux is continuous, then lack of change can't be a property, so everything changes in every possible way [Plato on Heraclitus]