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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

4206	Conventionalists see the world as an amorphous lump without identities, but are we part of the lump? [Lowe]

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There is no coming-to-be of anything, but only mixing and separating [Empedocles, by Aristotle]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

4204	Statues can't survive much change to their shape, unlike lumps of bronze, which must retain material [Lowe]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus

4200	If old parts are stored and then appropriated, they are no longer part of the original (which is the renovated ship). [Lowe]

4198	If 5% replacement preserves a ship, we can replace 4% and 4% again, and still retain the ship [Lowe]

4199	A renovation or a reconstruction of an original ship would be accepted, as long as the other one didn't exist [Lowe]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object

457	Substance is not created or destroyed in mortals, but there is only mixing and exchange [Empedocles]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

4203	Identity of Indiscernibles (same properties, same thing) ) is not Leibniz's Law (same thing, same properties) [Lowe]