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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Word and Object' and 'Two Notions of Being: Entity and Essence'

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

8464	Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected [Quine]

7924	The notion of a physical object is by far the most useful one for science [Quine]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

13918

Holes, shadows and spots of light can coincide without being identical [Lowe]

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

13921

All things must have an essence (a 'what it is'), or we would be unable to think about them [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences

13922

Knowing an essence is just knowing what the thing is, not knowing some further thing [Lowe]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

8482	Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]

12136

Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

17594

We can paraphrase 'x=y' as a sequence of the form 'if Fx then Fy' [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity

13920

Each thing has to be of a general kind, because it belongs to some category [Lowe]