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'Material Beings', 'Sameness and Substance' and 'Principia Mathematica'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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Material objects are in space and time, move, have a surface and mass, and are made of some stuff [Inwagen]
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Maybe table-shaped particles exist, but not tables [Inwagen, by Lowe]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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Individuation needs accounts of identity, of change, and of singling out [Wiggins]
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Individuation can only be understood by the relation between things and thinkers [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location
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Singling out extends back and forward in time [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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The only singling out is singling out 'as' something [Wiggins]
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In Aristotle's sense, saying x falls under f is to say what x is [Wiggins]
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Every determinate thing falls under a sortal, which fixes its persistence [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Nihilism says composition between single things is impossible [Inwagen]
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If there are no tables, but tables are things arranged tablewise, the denial of tables is a contradiction [Liggins on Inwagen]
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Actions by artefacts and natural bodies are disguised cooperations, so we don't need them [Inwagen]
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