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Ideas for 'How the Laws of Physics Lie', 'fragments/reports' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 3: Memory'

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

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Everything gives way, and nothing stands fast [Heraclitus]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects

11853

A mixed drink separates if it is not stirred [Heraclitus]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time

1350	Continuity is needed for existence, otherwise we would say a thing existed after it ceased to exist [Reid]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

427	It is not possible to step twice into the same river [Heraclitus]

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You can bathe in the same river twice, but not in the same river stage [Quine on Heraclitus]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 13. No Identity over Time

2064	If flux is continuous, then lack of change can't be a property, so everything changes in every possible way [Plato on Heraclitus]

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We treat slowly changing things as identical for the sake of economy in language [Reid]

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

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Identity is familiar to common sense, but very hard to define [Reid]

1367	Identity can only be affirmed of things which have a continued existence [Reid]