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'Parmenides', 'Contingent Identity' and 'De primae philosophiae emendatione'
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form [Plato]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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The concept of forces or powers best reveals the true concept of substance [Leibniz]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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If a statue is identical with the clay of which it is made, that identity is contingent [Gibbard]
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A 'piece' of clay begins when its parts stick together, separately from other clay [Gibbard]
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Clay and statue are two objects, which can be named and reasoned about [Gibbard]
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We can only investigate the identity once we have designated it as 'statue' or as 'clay' [Gibbard]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts [Plato, by Harte,V]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not [Plato, by Harte,V]
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Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many [Plato]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essentialism is the existence of a definite answer as to whether an entity fulfils a condition [Gibbard]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism for concreta is false, since they can come apart under two concepts [Gibbard]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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A particular statue has sortal persistence conditions, so its origin defines it [Gibbard]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
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Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part [Plato]
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Claims on contingent identity seem to violate Leibniz's Law [Gibbard]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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Two identical things must share properties - including creation and destruction times [Gibbard]
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Leibniz's Law isn't just about substitutivity, because it must involve properties and relations [Gibbard]
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