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Ideas for 'talk', 'Physics' and 'Why Propositions cannot be concrete'

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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
17041 Natural objects include animals and their parts, plants, and the simple elements [Aristotle]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
16172 Substance is not predicated of anything - but it still has something underlying it, that originates it [Aristotle]
16623 We only infer underlying natures by analogy, observing bronze of a statue, or wood of a bed [Aristotle]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
16174 A nature is related to a substance as shapeless matter is to something which has a shape [Aristotle]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
17043 Form, not matter, is a thing's nature, because it is actual, rather than potential [Aristotle]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal
16970 A thing's form and purpose are often the same, and form can be the initiator of change too [Aristotle]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
16104 Unity of the form is just unity of the definition [Aristotle]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object
11255 In feature-generation the matter (such as bronze) endures, but in generation it doesn't [Aristotle, by Politis]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
9071 We first sense whole entities, and then move to particular parts of it [Aristotle]
16791 There is no whole except for the parts [Aristotle]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
16972 The four explanations are the main aspects of a thing's nature [Aristotle, by Moravcsik]
5084 A thing's nature is what causes its changes and stability [Aristotle]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
16173 Coming to be is by shape-change, addition, subtraction, composition or alteration [Aristotle]
17042 Natural things are their own source of stability through change [Aristotle]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
16691 A day, or the games, has one thing after another, actually and potentially occurring [Aristotle]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
16574 Coming-to-be may be from nothing in a qualified way, as arising from an absence [Aristotle]