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'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz', 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld' and 'Positions'
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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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