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'Theaetetus', 'Parts' and '27: Book of Daniel'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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To individuate something we must pick it out, but also know its limits of variation [Simons]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
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Sortal nouns for continuants tell you their continuance- and cessation-conditions [Simons]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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A whole requires some unique relation which binds together all of the parts [Simons]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Tibbles isn't Tib-plus-tail, because Tibbles can survive its loss, but the sum can't [Simons]
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Does Tibbles remain the same cat when it loses its tail? [Simons]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
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Without extensional mereology two objects can occupy the same position [Simons]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Composition is asymmetric and transitive [Simons]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object
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A hand constitutes a fist (when clenched), but a fist is not composed of an augmented hand [Simons]
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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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We say 'b is part of a', 'b is a part of a', 'b are a part of a', or 'b are parts of a'. [Simons]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
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'Mereological extensionality' says objects with the same parts are identical [Simons]
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Classical mereology says there are 'sums', for whose existence there is no other evidence [Simons]
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If there are c atoms, this gives 2^c - 1 individuals, so there can't be just 2 or 12 individuals [Simons]
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Sums are more plausible for pluralities and masses than they are for individuals [Simons]
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Sums of things in different categories are found within philosophy. [Simons]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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A sum is that from which nothing is lacking, which is a whole [Plato]
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The wholeness of a melody seems conventional, but of an explosion it seems natural [Simons]
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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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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
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Objects have their essential properties because of the kind of objects they are [Simons]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
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We must distinguish the de dicto 'must' of propositions from the de re 'must' of essence [Simons]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 11. Essence of Artefacts
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Original parts are the best candidates for being essential to artefacts [Simons]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 12. Essential Parts
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An essential part of an essential part is an essential part of the whole [Simons]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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Four dimensional-objects are stranger than most people think [Simons]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 7. Intermittent Objects
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Intermittent objects would be respectable if they occurred in nature, as well as in artefacts [Simons]
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Objects like chess games, with gaps in them, are thereby less unified [Simons]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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An entrepreneur and a museum curator would each be happy with their ship at the end [Simons]
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The 'best candidate' theories mistakenly assume there is one answer to 'Which is the real ship?' [Simons]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 12. Origin as Essential
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The zygote is an essential initial part, for a sexually reproduced organism [Simons]
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