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'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz', 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld' and 'The Theory of Relativity and A Priori Knowledge'
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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 / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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Philosophy needs the precision of the unity given by substances [Leibniz]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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Accidental unity has degrees, from a mob to a society to a machine or organism [Leibniz]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
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We find unity in reason, and unity in perception, but these are not true unity [Leibniz]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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A body is a unified aggregate, unless it has an indivisible substance [Leibniz]
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Unity needs an indestructible substance, to contain everything which will happen to it [Leibniz]
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Every bodily substance must have a soul, or something analogous to a soul [Leibniz]
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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 / b. Need for substance
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Aggregates don’t reduce to points, or atoms, or illusion, so must reduce to substance [Leibniz]
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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 / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Basic predicates give the complete concept, which then predicts all of the actions [Leibniz]
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Essences exist in the divine understanding [Leibniz]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Bodies need a soul (or something like it) to avoid being mere phenomena [Leibniz]
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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 / D. Essence of Objects / 10. Essence as Species
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Truths about species are eternal or necessary, but individual truths concern what exists [Leibniz]
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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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