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Ideas for 'The Elm and the Expert', 'Letters to Jacques Lenfant' and 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
16649 Scholastics say there is a genuine thing if it is 'separable' [Pasnau]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / b. Individuation by properties
16785 If you reject essences, questions of individuation become extremely difficult [Pasnau]
16680 Scholastics thought Quantity could be the principle of individuation [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
16628 Corpuscularianism promised a decent account of substance [Pasnau]
16617 Corpuscularian critics of scholasticism say only substances exist [Pasnau]
16741 Scholastics wanted to treat Aristotelianism as physics, rather than as metaphysics [Pasnau]
16777 If crowds are things at all, they seem to be Substances, since they bear properties [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
16615 Scholastics use 'substantia' for thick concrete entities, and for thin metaphysical ones [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
16775 For corpuscularians, a substance is just its integral parts [Pasnau]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
16769 If clay survives destruction of the statue, the statue wasn't a substance, but a mere accident [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
16602 Corpuscularianism rejected not only form, but also the dependence of matter on form [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / b. Form as principle
16612 Hylomorphism may not be a rival to science, but an abstract account of unity and endurance [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal
16613 Hylomorphism declined because scholastics made it into a testable physical theory [Pasnau]
16747 Scholastics made forms substantial, in a way unintended by Aristotle [Pasnau]
16759 Scholastics began to see substantial form more as Aristotle's 'efficient' cause [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
16748 Aquinas says a substance has one form; Scotists say it has many forms [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 4. Quantity of an Object
16671 Scholastic Quantity either gives a body parts, or spreads them out in a unified way [Pasnau]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
16579 There may be different types of substrate, or temporary substrates [Pasnau]
16596 A substratum can't be 'bare', because it has a job to do [Pasnau]
16584 If a substrate gives causal support for change, quite a lot of the ingredients must endure [Pasnau]
16580 A substrate may be 'prime matter', which endures through every change [Pasnau]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
16749 Aristotelians deny that all necessary properties are essential [Pasnau]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
16694 Typical successive things are time and motion [Pasnau]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
16583 Weak ex nihilo says it all comes from something; strong version says the old must partly endure [Pasnau]