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'Taking Rights Seriously', 'Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr)' and 'A Survey of Metaphysics'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Conventionalists see the world as an amorphous lump without identities, but are we part of the lump? [Lowe]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Statues can't survive much change to their shape, unlike lumps of bronze, which must retain material [Lowe]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object
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Matter is the substratum, which supports both coming-to-be and alteration [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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If old parts are stored and then appropriated, they are no longer part of the original (which is the renovated ship). [Lowe]
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If 5% replacement preserves a ship, we can replace 4% and 4% again, and still retain the ship [Lowe]
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A renovation or a reconstruction of an original ship would be accepted, as long as the other one didn't exist [Lowe]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
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Does the pure 'this' come to be, or the 'this-such', or 'so-great', or 'somewhere'? [Aristotle]
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Philosophers have worried about coming-to-be from nothing pre-existing [Aristotle]
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The substratum changing to a contrary is the material cause of coming-to-be [Aristotle]
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If a perceptible substratum persists, it is 'alteration'; coming-to-be is a complete change [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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Identity of Indiscernibles (same properties, same thing) ) is not Leibniz's Law (same thing, same properties) [Lowe]
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