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'Classical Cosmology (frags)', 'Word and Object' and 'A Powerful Particulars View of Causation'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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Compound objects are processes, insofar as change is essential to them [Ingthorsson]
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The notion of a physical object is by far the most useful one for science [Quine]
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Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected [Quine]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Simples
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Most materialist views postulate smallest indivisible components which are permanent [Ingthorsson]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]
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Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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Endurance and perdurance just show the consequences of A or B series time [Ingthorsson]
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Science suggests causal aspects of the constitution and persistance of objects [Ingthorsson]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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If causation involves production, that needs persisting objects [Ingthorsson]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
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We can paraphrase 'x=y' as a sequence of the form 'if Fx then Fy' [Quine]
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