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'Metaphysics: the logical approach', 'A Theory of Conditionals' and 'Substance and Individuation in Leibniz'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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If you individuate things by their origin, you still have to individuate the origins themselves [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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Numerical difference is a symmetrical notion, unlike proper individuation [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Haecceity as property, or as colourless thisness, or as singleton set [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
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We can ask for the nature of substance, about type of substance, and about individual substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
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The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Why should packed-together particles be a thing (Mt Everest), but not scattered ones? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Could a horse lose the essential property of being a horse, and yet continue to exist? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Modern essences are sets of essential predicate-functions [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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Modern essentialists express essence as functions from worlds to extensions for predicates [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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If a soldier continues to exist after serving as a soldier, does the wind cease to exist after it ceases to blow? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
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One can step into the same river twice, but not into the same water [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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Necessity-of-origin won't distinguish ex nihilo creations, or things sharing an origin [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity
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Absolutists might accept that to exist is relative, but relative to what? How about relative to itself? [Benardete,JA]
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Maybe self-identity isn't existence, if Pegasus can be self-identical but non-existent [Benardete,JA]
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