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Ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr)' and 'Can there be Vague Objects?'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

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If a=b is indeterminate, then a=/=b, and so there cannot be indeterminate identity [Evans, by Thomasson]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object

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Matter is the substratum, which supports both coming-to-be and alteration [Aristotle]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object

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Does the pure 'this' come to be, or the 'this-such', or 'so-great', or 'somewhere'? [Aristotle]

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Philosophers have worried about coming-to-be from nothing pre-existing [Aristotle]

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The substratum changing to a contrary is the material cause of coming-to-be [Aristotle]

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If a perceptible substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; coming-to-be is a complete change [Aristotle]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

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There can't be vague identity; a and b must differ, since a, unlike b, is only vaguely the same as b [Evans, by PG]