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Ideas for 'Individuals without Sortals', 'The Ethics' and 'Against Liberalism'

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

17519

To express borderline cases of objects, you need the concept of an 'object' [Ayers]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind

17510

Speakers need the very general category of a thing, if they are to think about it [Ayers]

17522

We use sortals to classify physical objects by the nature and origin of their unity [Ayers]

17515

Seeing caterpillar and moth as the same needs continuity, not identity of sortal concepts [Ayers]

17511

Recognising continuity is separate from sortals, and must precede their use [Ayers]

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

17517

Could the same matter have more than one form or principle of unity? [Ayers]

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

17188

A thing is unified if its parts produce a single effect [Spinoza]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / b. Need for substance

5639	Spinoza implies that thought is impossible without the notion of substance [Spinoza, by Scruton]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined

21857

Substance is the power of self-actualisation [Spinoza, by Lord]

4813	Substance is that of which an independent conception can be formed [Spinoza]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

17513

If there are two objects, then 'that marble, man-shaped object' is ambiguous [Ayers]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects

4828	The essence of a thing is what is required for it to exist or be conceived [Spinoza]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind

17523

Sortals basically apply to individuals [Ayers]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier

17187

Essence gives existence and conception to things, and is inseparable from them [Spinoza]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

17191

Nothing is essential if it is in every part, and is common to everything [Spinoza]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory

17184

All natures of things produce some effect [Spinoza]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

17521

You can't have the concept of a 'stage' if you lack the concept of an object [Ayers]

17514

Temporal 'parts' cannot be separated or rearranged [Ayers]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 11. End of an Object

17205

Only an external cause can destroy something [Spinoza]

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

17509

Some say a 'covering concept' completes identity; others place the concept in the reference [Ayers]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

17512

If diachronic identities need covering concepts, why not synchronic identities too? [Ayers]

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

17175

There cannot be two substances with the same attributes [Spinoza]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

17173

Two substances can't be the same if they have different attributes [Spinoza]