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'Wisdom', 'Abstract Objects' and 'Dion and Theon: an essentialist solution'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta
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Shapes and directions are of something, but games and musical compositions are not [Hale]
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Many abstract objects, such as chess, seem non-spatial, but are not atemporal [Hale]
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If the mental is non-spatial but temporal, then it must be classified as abstract [Hale]
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Being abstract is based on a relation between things which are spatially separated [Hale]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta
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The modern Fregean use of the term 'object' is much broader than the ordinary usage [Hale]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / d. Problems with abstracta
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We can't believe in a 'whereabouts' because we ask 'what kind of object is it?' [Hale]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Burke,M, by Hawley]
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The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Burke,M, by Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Burke,M, by Wasserman]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Burke,M, by Sider]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Burke,M, by Wasserman]
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Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Burke,M, by Hawley]
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Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Burke,M, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Burke,M, by Sider]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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The relations featured in criteria of identity are always equivalence relations [Hale]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
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We sometimes apply identity without having a real criterion [Hale]
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