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'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz', 'fragments/reports' and 'Identity and Essence'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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Indiscernibility is a necessary and sufficient condition for identity [Brody]
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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 / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Brody bases sortal essentialism on properties required throughout something's existence [Brody, by Mackie,P]
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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 / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
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Modern emphasis is on properties had essentially; traditional emphasis is on sort-defining properties [Brody]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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A sortal essence is a property which once possessed always possessed [Brody, by Mackie,P]
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Maybe essential properties are those which determine a natural kind? [Brody]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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De re essentialism standardly says all possible objects identical with a have a's essential properties [Brody]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essentially, a has P, always had P, must have had P, and has never had a future without P [Brody]
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An object having a property essentially is equivalent to its having it necessarily [Brody]
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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 / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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Essentialism is justified if the essential properties of things explain their other properties [Brody]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
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Mereological essentialism says that every part that ensures the existence is essential [Brody]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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Interrupted objects have two first moments of existence, which could be two beginnings [Brody]
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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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a and b share all properties; so they share being-identical-with-a; so a = b [Brody]
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