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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta
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The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects
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Plantinga proposes necessary existent essences as surrogates for the nonexistent things [Plantinga, by Stalnaker]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]
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The 'identity criteria' of a name are a group of essential and established facts [Plantinga]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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'Being Socrates' and 'being identical with Socrates' characterise Socrates, so they are among his properties [Plantinga]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki]
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Plato was less concerned than Aristotle with the source of unity in a complex object [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / c. Types of substance
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Plato's holds that there are three substances: Forms, mathematical entities, and perceptible bodies [Plato, by Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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Plato says wholes are either containers, or they're atomic, or they don't exist [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Only universals have essence [Plato, by Politis]
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Does Socrates have essential properties, plus a unique essence (or 'haecceity') which entails them? [Plantinga]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Plato and Aristotle take essence to make a thing what it is [Plato, by Politis]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
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Properties are 'trivially essential' if they are instantiated by every object in every possible world [Plantinga]
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X is essentially P if it is P in every world, or in every X-world, or in the actual world (and not ¬P elsewhere) [Plantinga]
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If a property is ever essential, can it only ever be an essential property? [Plantinga]
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Essences are instantiated, and are what entails a thing's properties and lack of properties [Plantinga]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity
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Does 'being identical with Socrates' name a property? I can think of no objections to it [Plantinga]
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