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'Possibility', 'Letters to Schlick' and 'Varieties of Things'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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The idea that every entity must have identity conditions is an unfortunate misunderstanding [Jubien]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location
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A 'thing' cannot be in two places at once, and two things cannot be in the same place at once [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Any entity has the unique property of being that specific entity [Jubien]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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It is incoherent to think that a given entity depends on its kind for its existence [Jubien]
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We 'individuate' kinds of object, and 'identify' particular specimens [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Objects need conventions for their matter, their temporal possibility, and their spatial possibility [Jubien]
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Basically, the world doesn't have ready-made 'objects'; we carve objects any way we like [Jubien]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Unlike bundles of properties, substances have an intrinsic unity [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
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The bundle theory of substance implies the identity of indiscernibles [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
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A phenomenalist cannot distinguish substance from attribute, so must accept the bundle view [Macdonald,C]
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When we ascribe a property to a substance, the bundle theory will make that a tautology [Macdonald,C]
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Substances persist through change, but the bundle theory says they can't [Macdonald,C]
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A substance might be a sequence of bundles, rather than a single bundle [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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If the statue is loved and the clay hated, that is about the object first qua statue, then qua clay [Jubien]
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If one entity is an object, a statue, and some clay, these come apart in at least three ways [Jubien]
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A statue and its matter have different persistence conditions, so they are not identical [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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The idea of coincident objects is a last resort, as it is opposed to commonsense naturalism [Jubien]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
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A substance is either a bundle of properties, or a bare substratum, or an essence [Macdonald,C]
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Each substance contains a non-property, which is its substratum or bare particular [Macdonald,C]
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The substratum theory explains the unity of substances, and their survival through change [Macdonald,C]
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A substratum has the quality of being bare, and they are useless because indiscernible [Macdonald,C]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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Parts seem to matter when it is just an object, but not matter when it is a kind of object [Jubien]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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We should not regard essentialism as just nontrivial de re necessity [Jubien]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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Thinking of them as 'ships' the repaired ship is the original, but as 'objects' the reassembly is the original [Jubien]
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Rearranging the planks as a ship is confusing; we'd say it was the same 'object' with a different arrangement [Jubien]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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If two objects are indiscernible across spacetime, how could we decide whether or not they are the same? [Jubien]
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At different times Leibniz articulated three different versions of his so-called Law [Macdonald,C]
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The Identity of Indiscernibles is false, because it is not necessarily true [Macdonald,C]
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