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'Parmenides', 'A Survey of Metaphysics' and 'Introduction to Mathematical Logic'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Conventionalists see the world as an amorphous lump without identities, but are we part of the lump? [Lowe]
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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 / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Statues can't survive much change to their shape, unlike lumps of bronze, which must retain material [Lowe]
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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 / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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If 5% replacement preserves a ship, we can replace 4% and 4% again, and still retain the ship [Lowe]
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A renovation or a reconstruction of an original ship would be accepted, as long as the other one didn't exist [Lowe]
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If old parts are stored and then appropriated, they are no longer part of the original (which is the renovated ship). [Lowe]
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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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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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Identity of Indiscernibles (same properties, same thing) ) is not Leibniz's Law (same thing, same properties) [Lowe]
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