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'fragments/reports', 'Possible Worlds and Necessary A Posteriori' and 'Ordinatio'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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We distinguish one thing from another by contradiction, because this is, and that is not [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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The haecceity is the featureless thing which gives ultimate individuality to a substance [Duns Scotus, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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It is absurd that there is no difference between a genuinely unified thing, and a mere aggregate [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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What prevents a stone from being divided into parts which are still the stone? [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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How do we tell a table's being contingently plastic from its being essentially plastic? [Jackson]
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An x is essentially F if it is F in every possible world in which it appears [Jackson]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Quine may have conflated de re and de dicto essentialism, but there is a real epistemological problem [Jackson]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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Two things are different if something is true of one and not of the other [Duns Scotus]
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