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Ideas for 'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz', 'The Possibility of Metaphysics' and 'Rawls and Feminism'

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

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To be an object at all requires identity-conditions [Lowe]

8265	Our commitment to the existence of objects should depend on their explanatory value [Lowe]

8275	Objects are entities with full identity-conditions, but there are entities other than objects [Lowe]

8267	Perhaps concrete objects are entities which are in space-time and subject to causality [Lowe]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

8263	An object is an entity which has identity-conditions [Lowe]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

8268	Some things (such as electrons) can be countable, while lacking proper identity [Lowe]

13102

If you individuate things by their origin, you still have to individuate the origins themselves [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

13103

Numerical difference is a symmetrical notion, unlike proper individuation [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties

8303	Criteria of identity cannot individuate objects, because they are shared among different types [Lowe]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location

8292	Diversity of two tigers is their difference in space-time; difference of matter is a consequence [Lowe]

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]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

8291	Individuation principles identify what kind it is; identity criteria distinguish items of the same kind [Lowe]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance

13100

Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

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]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

16128

A 'substance' is an object which doesn't depend for existence on other objects [Lowe]

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The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object

8279	The identity of composite objects isn't fixed by original composition, because how do you identify the origin? [Lowe]

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]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism

8271	An object 'endures' if it is always wholly present, and 'perdures' if different parts exist at different times [Lowe]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

8272	How can you identify temporal parts of tomatoes without referring to tomatoes? [Lowe]

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]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

8305	A clear idea of the kind of an object must precede a criterion of identity for it [Lowe]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

8290	One view is that two objects of the same type are only distinguished by differing in matter [Lowe]