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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Word and Object' and 'Causal Structuralism'

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

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

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

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / b. Form as principle

15128

We can treat the structure/form of the world differently from the nodes/matter of the world [Hawthorne]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences

15121

An individual essence is a necessary and sufficient profile for a thing [Hawthorne]

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]