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'Freedom and Action', 'In Defence of Three-Dimensionalism' and 'Parts of Classes'
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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The many are many and the one is one, so they can't be identical [Lewis]
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Lewis affirms 'composition as identity' - that an object is no more than its parts [Lewis, by Merricks]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
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In mereology no two things consist of the same atoms [Lewis]
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Trout-turkeys exist, despite lacking cohesion, natural joints and united causal power [Lewis]
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Given cats, a fusion of cats adds nothing further to reality [Lewis]
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The one has different truths from the many; it is one rather than many, one rather than six [Lewis]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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Lewis only uses fusions to create unities, but fusions notoriously flatten our distinctions [Oliver/Smiley on Lewis]
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A commitment to cat-fusions is not a further commitment; it is them and they are it [Lewis]
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Lewis prefers giving up singletons to giving up sums [Lewis, by Fine,K]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism
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3-D says things are stretched in space but not in time, and entire at a time but not at a location [Fine,K]
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Genuine motion, rather than variation of position, requires the 'entire presence' of the object [Fine,K]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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4-D says things are stretched in space and in time, and not entire at a time or at a location [Fine,K]
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You can ask when the wedding was, but not (usually) when the bride was [Fine,K, by Simons]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
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Three-dimensionalist can accept temporal parts, as things enduring only for an instant [Fine,K]
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