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Ideas for 'A Puzzle about Belief', 'Coming-to-be and Passing-away (Gen/Corr)' and 'The Logic of What Might Have Been'

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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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

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Any property is attached to anything in some possible world, so I am a radical anti-essentialist [Salmon,N]

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]