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'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz', 'works' and 'A Survey of Metaphysics'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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If you individuate things by their origin, you still have to individuate the origins themselves [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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Numerical difference is a symmetrical notion, unlike proper individuation [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Haecceity as property, or as colourless thisness, or as singleton set [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Conventionalists see the world as an amorphous lump without identities, but are we part of the lump? [Lowe]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
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We can ask for the nature of substance, about type of substance, and about individual substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
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The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Statues can't survive much change to their shape, unlike lumps of bronze, which must retain material [Lowe]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Modern essences are sets of essential predicate-functions [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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Modern essentialists express essence as functions from worlds to extensions for predicates [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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If old parts are stored and then appropriated, they are no longer part of the original (which is the renovated ship). [Lowe]
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If 5% replacement preserves a ship, we can replace 4% and 4% again, and still retain the ship [Lowe]
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A renovation or a reconstruction of an original ship would be accepted, as long as the other one didn't exist [Lowe]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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Necessity-of-origin won't distinguish ex nihilo creations, or things sharing an origin [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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Identity of Indiscernibles (same properties, same thing) ) is not Leibniz's Law (same thing, same properties) [Lowe]
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