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'works', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'The Actual and the Virtual'
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18 ideas
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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14952
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Things are constructs for tracking patterns (and not linguistic, because animals do it) [Ladyman/Ross]
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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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Maybe individuation can be explained by thermodynamic depth [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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14927
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Physics seems to imply that we must give up self-subsistent individuals [Ladyman/Ross]
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There is no single view of individuals, because different sciences operate on different scales [Ladyman/Ross]
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There are no cats in quantum theory, and no mountains in astrophysics [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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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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Plato sees an object's structure as expressible in mathematics [Plato, by Koslicki]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
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Things are abstractions from structures [Ladyman/Ross]
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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 / 5. Composition of an Object
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The idea of composition, that parts of the world are 'made of' something, is no longer helpful [Ladyman/Ross]
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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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A sum of things is not a whole if the whole does not support some new generalisation [Ladyman/Ross]
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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 / 13. Nominal Essence
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We treat the core of a pattern as an essence, in order to keep track of it [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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A continuous object might be a type, with instances at each time [Ladyman/Ross]
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