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Ideas for 'Events and Their Names', 'Treatise of Human Nature' and 'The Principles of Mathematics'

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21 ideas

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 3. Objects in Thought

7781	I call an object of thought a 'term'. This is a wide concept implying unity and existence. [Russell]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

14166

Unities are only in propositions or concepts, and nothing that exists has unity [Russell]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

21293

Individuation is only seeing that a thing is stable and continuous over time [Hume]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification

14164

The only unities are simples, or wholes composed of parts [Russell]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates

14112

A set has some sort of unity, but not enough to be a 'whole' [Russell]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique

12048

The only meaning we have for substance is a collection of qualities [Hume]

13424

Aristotelians propose accidents supported by substance, but they don't understand either of them [Hume]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

14170

Change is obscured by substance, a thing's nature, subject-predicate form, and by essences [Russell]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

21299

Changing a part can change the whole, not absolutely, but by its proportion of the whole [Hume]

21300

A change more obviously destroys an identity if it is quick and observed [Hume]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change

1321	If identity survives change or interruption, then resemblance, contiguity or causation must unite the parts of it [Hume]

1330	If a republic can retain identity through many changes, so can an individual [Hume]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects

21302

If a ruined church is rebuilt, its relation to its parish makes it the same church [Hume]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

21303

We accept the identity of a river through change, because it is the river's nature [Hume]

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

21301

The purpose of the ship makes it the same one through all variations [Hume]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

21290

Multiple objects cannot convey identity, because we see them as different [Hume]

1207	Both number and unity are incompatible with the relation of identity [Hume]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity

21289

'An object is the same with itself' is meaningless; it expresses unity, not identity [Hume]

21292

Saying an object is the same with itself is only meaningful over a period of time [Hume]

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

14107

Terms are identical if they belong to all the same classes [Russell]

11849

It at least makes sense to say two objects have all their properties in common [Wittgenstein on Russell]