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'Individuals without Sortals', 'World and Essence' and 'The Bhagavad Gita'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects
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Plantinga proposes necessary existent essences as surrogates for the nonexistent things [Plantinga, by Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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To express borderline cases of objects, you need the concept of an 'object' [Ayers]
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The 'identity criteria' of a name are a group of essential and established facts [Plantinga]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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'Being Socrates' and 'being identical with Socrates' characterise Socrates, so they are among his properties [Plantinga]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Speakers need the very general category of a thing, if they are to think about it [Ayers]
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We use sortals to classify physical objects by the nature and origin of their unity [Ayers]
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Seeing caterpillar and moth as the same needs continuity, not identity of sortal concepts [Ayers]
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Recognising continuity is separate from sortals, and must precede their use [Ayers]
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