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Ideas for 'works', 'De ente praedicamentali' and 'A Survey of Metaphysics'

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16700

In order to speak about time and successive entities, the 'present' must be enlarged [Wycliff]

16701

To be successive a thing needs parts, which must therefore be lodged outside that instant [Wycliff]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus

4198	If 5% replacement preserves a ship, we can replace 4% and 4% again, and still retain the ship [Lowe]

4199	A renovation or a reconstruction of an original ship would be accepted, as long as the other one didn't exist [Lowe]

4200	If old parts are stored and then appropriated, they are no longer part of the original (which is the renovated ship). [Lowe]