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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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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 / 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 / 1. Structure of an Object
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The 'magical' view of structural universals says they are atoms, even though they have parts [Lewis]
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If 'methane' is an atomic structural universal, it has nothing to connect it to its carbon universals [Lewis]
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The 'pictorial' view of structural universals says they are wholes made of universals as parts [Lewis]
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The structural universal 'methane' needs the universal 'hydrogen' four times over [Lewis]
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Butane and Isobutane have the same atoms, but different structures [Lewis]
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Structural universals have a necessary connection to the universals forming its parts [Lewis]
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We can't get rid of structural universals if there are no simple universals [Lewis]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Composition is not just making new things from old; there are too many counterexamples [Lewis]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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A whole is distinct from its parts, but is not a further addition in ontology [Lewis]
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Different things (a toy house and toy car) can be made of the same parts at different times [Lewis]
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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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