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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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If you individuate things by their origin, you still have to individuate the origins themselves [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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Numerical difference is a symmetrical notion, unlike proper individuation [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Haecceity as property, or as colourless thisness, or as singleton set [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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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 / a. Substance
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Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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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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We can ask for the nature of substance, about type of substance, and about individual substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / d. Substance defined
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The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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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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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 / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Modern essences are sets of essential predicate-functions [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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Modern essentialists express essence as functions from worlds to extensions for predicates [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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Necessity-of-origin won't distinguish ex nihilo creations, or things sharing an origin [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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