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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'An Analysis of Knowledge and Valuation' and 'Parts of Classes'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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Trope theorists usually see objects as 'bundles' of tropes [Heil]
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Objects are substances, which are objects considered as the bearer of properties [Heil]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
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Maybe there is only one substance, space-time or a quantum field [Heil]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
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Rather than 'substance' I use 'objects', which have properties [Heil]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Statues and bronze lumps have discernible differences, so can't be identical [Heil]
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Do we reduce statues to bronze, or eliminate statues, or allow statues and bronze? [Heil]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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The many are many and the one is one, so they can't be identical [Lewis]
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Lewis affirms 'composition as identity' - that an object is no more than its parts [Lewis, by Merricks]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
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In mereology no two things consist of the same atoms [Lewis]
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Trout-turkeys exist, despite lacking cohesion, natural joints and united causal power [Lewis]
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Given cats, a fusion of cats adds nothing further to reality [Lewis]
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The one has different truths from the many; it is one rather than many, one rather than six [Lewis]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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Lewis only uses fusions to create unities, but fusions notoriously flatten our distinctions [Oliver/Smiley on Lewis]
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A commitment to cat-fusions is not a further commitment; it is them and they are it [Lewis]
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Lewis prefers giving up singletons to giving up sums [Lewis, by Fine,K]
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