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Ideas for 'works', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'Classical Cosmology (frags)'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

14952

Things are constructs for tracking patterns (and not linguistic, because animals do it) [Ladyman/Ross]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

9607	The greatest discovery in human thought is Plato's discovery of abstract objects [Brown,JR on Plato]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

13263

We can grasp whole things in science, because they have a mathematics and a teleology [Plato, by Koslicki]

14950

Maybe individuation can be explained by thermodynamic depth [Ladyman/Ross]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects

14927

Physics seems to imply that we must give up self-subsistent individuals [Ladyman/Ross]

14944

There is no single view of individuals, because different sciences operate on different scales [Ladyman/Ross]

14946

There are no cats in quantum theory, and no mountains in astrophysics [Ladyman/Ross]