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Ideas for 'The Sayings of Confucius', 'Naming and Necessity lectures' and 'On 'Physics''

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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 / 6. Successive Things

16695

Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme]

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

11867

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]