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'Theaetetus', 'How Things Might Have Been' and 'The Ages of the World'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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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 / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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If a word has no parts and has a single identity, it turns out to be the same kind of thing as a letter [Plato]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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The whole can't be the parts, because it would be all of the parts, which is the whole [Plato]
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A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole [Plato]
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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 / 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 / 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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