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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 / 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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A principle of individuation may pinpoint identity and distinctness, now and over time [Mackie,P]
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Individuation may include counterfactual possibilities, as well as identity and persistence [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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A haecceity is the essential, simple, unanalysable property of being-this-thing [Mackie,P]
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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 / 1. Essences of Objects
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Essentialism must avoid both reduplication of essences, and multiple occupancy by essences [Mackie,P]
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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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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 3. Individual Essences
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An individual essence is the properties the object could not exist without [Mackie,P]
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No other object can possibly have the same individual essence as some object [Mackie,P]
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There are problems both with individual essences and without them [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Unlike Hesperus=Phosophorus, water=H2O needs further premisses before it is necessary [Mackie,P]
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Why are any sortals essential, and why are only some of them essential? [Mackie,P]
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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 / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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The Kripke and Putnam view of kinds makes them explanatorily basic, but has modal implications [Mackie,P]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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Origin is not a necessity, it is just 'tenacious'; we keep it fixed in counterfactual discussions [Mackie,P]
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