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'From an Ontological Point of View', 'Truthmakers' and 'Word and Object'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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The notion of a physical object is by far the most useful one for science [Quine]
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Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected [Quine]
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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 / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]
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Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
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We can paraphrase 'x=y' as a sequence of the form 'if Fx then Fy' [Quine]
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