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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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In all instances of identity, there must be some facts to ensure the identity [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Genus gives the essence better than the differentiae do [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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12024
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If we combined two clocks, it seems that two clocks may have become one clock. [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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In the case of a house the parts can exist without the whole, so parts are not the whole [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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Only individual essences will ground identities across worlds in other properties [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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An individual essence is a set of essential properties which only that object can have [Forbes,G]
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Non-trivial individual essence is properties other than de dicto, or universal, or relational [Forbes,G]
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Everything that is has one single essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Essential properties depend on a category, and perhaps also on particular facts [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essential properties are those without which an object could not exist [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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An 'idion' belongs uniquely to a thing, but is not part of its essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts
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Same parts does not ensure same artefact, if those parts could constitute a different artefact [Forbes,G]
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Artefacts have fuzzy essences [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 11. End of an Object
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Destruction is dissolution of essence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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If two things are the same, they must have the same source and origin [Aristotle]
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An individual might change their sex in a world, but couldn't have differed in sex at origin [Forbes,G]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
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Identities must hold because of other facts, which must be instrinsic [Forbes,G, by Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 9. Sameness
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'Same' is mainly for names or definitions, but also for propria, and for accidents [Aristotle]
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Two identical things have the same accidents, they are the same; if the accidents differ, they're different [Aristotle]
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Numerical sameness and generic sameness are not the same [Aristotle]
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