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'Why Constitution is not Identity', 'Entity and Identity' and 'A Powerful Particulars View of Causation'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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Compound objects are processes, insofar as change is essential to them [Ingthorsson]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta
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We need a logical use of 'object' as predicate-worthy, and an 'ontological' use [Strawson,P]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples
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Most materialist views postulate smallest indivisible components which are permanent [Ingthorsson]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Clay is intrinsically and atomically the same as statue (and that lacks 'modal properties') [Rudder Baker]
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The clay is not a statue - it borrows that property from the statue it constitutes [Rudder Baker]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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Is it possible for two things that are identical to become two separate things? [Rudder Baker]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object
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Constitution is not identity, as consideration of essential predicates shows [Rudder Baker]
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The constitution view gives a unified account of the relation of persons/bodies, statues/bronze etc [Rudder Baker]
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Statues essentially have relational properties lacked by lumps [Rudder Baker]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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It makes no sense to ask of some individual thing what it is that makes it that individual [Strawson,P]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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Endurance and perdurance just show the consequences of A or B series time [Ingthorsson]
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Science suggests causal aspects of the constitution and persistance of objects [Ingthorsson]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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If causation involves production, that needs persisting objects [Ingthorsson]
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