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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Parerga and Paralipomena' and 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail

16058

Dion and Theon coexist, but Theon lacks a foot. If Dion loses a foot, he ousts Theon? [Chrysippus, by Philo of Alexandria]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

5443	Kripke and others have made essentialism once again respectable [Ellis]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence

5444	'Individual essences' fix a particular individual, and 'kind essences' fix the kind it belongs to [Ellis]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

5462	Essential properties are usually quantitatively determinate [Ellis]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence

5448	'Real essence' makes it what it is; 'nominal essence' makes us categorise it a certain way [Ellis]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change

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Change of matter doesn't destroy identity - in Dion and Theon change is a condition of identity [Chrysippus, by Long/Sedley]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

5477	One thing can look like something else, without being the something else [Ellis]