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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
16130 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
13104 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]