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Ideas for 'talk', 'Cratylus' and 'Objects and Persons'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

6124	I say that most of the objects of folk ontology do not exist [Merricks]

6134	Is swimming pool water an object, composed of its mass or parts? [Merricks]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples

6125	We can eliminate objects without a commitment to simples [Merricks]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

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Doesn't each thing have an essence, just as it has other qualities? [Plato]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

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Merricks agrees that there are no composite objects, but offers a different semantics [Merricks, by Liggins]

6142	The 'folk' way of carving up the world is not intrinsically better than quite arbitrary ways [Merricks]

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If atoms 'arranged baseballwise' break a window, that analytically entails that a baseball did it [Merricks, by Thomasson]

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Overdetermination: the atoms do all the causing, so the baseball causes no breakage [Merricks]