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Ideas for 'De Corpore (Elements, First Section)', 'Causal Powers' and 'De Mundo Praesenti'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / c. Individuation by location
14960 Bodies are independent of thought, and coincide with part of space [Hobbes]
17250 If you separate the two places of one thing, you will also separate the thing [Hobbes]
17249 If you separated two things in the same place, you would also separate the places [Hobbes]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
15272 The good criticism of substance by Humeans also loses them the vital concept of a thing [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
17248 If a whole body is moved, its parts must move with it [Hobbes]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / e. Substance critique
15304 We can escape substance and its properties, if we take fields of pure powers as ultimate [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object
15309 The assumption that shape and solidity are fundamental implies dubious 'substance' in bodies [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 7. Substratum
15264 The notorious substratum results from substance-with-qualities; individuals-with-powers solves this [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / b. Sums of parts
16790 A body is always the same, whether the parts are together or dispersed [Hobbes]
9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
17244 To make a whole, parts needn't be put together, but can be united in the mind [Hobbes]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
12743 A true being must (unlike a chain) have united parts, with a substantial form as its subject [Leibniz]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 5. Essence as Kind
17233 Particulars contain universal things [Hobbes]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
15262 In logic the nature of a kind, substance or individual is the essence which is inseparable from what it is [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities
17246 Some accidental features are permanent, unless the object perishes [Hobbes]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties
15297 We can infer a new property of a thing from its other properties, via its essential nature [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
17251 The feature which picks out or names a thing is usually called its 'essence' [Hobbes]
9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
15266 We say the essence of particles is energy, but only so we can tell a story about the nature of things [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
15220 To say something remains the same but lacks its capacities and powers seems a contradiction [Harré/Madden]
15222 Some individuals can gain or lose capacities or powers, without losing their identity [Harré/Madden]
15296 A particular might change all of its characteristics, retaining mere numerical identity [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism
15275 'Dense' time raises doubts about continuous objects, so they need 'continuous' time [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
15271 If things are successive instantaneous events, nothing requires those events to resemble one another [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
17257 It is the same river if it has the same source, no matter what flows in it [Hobbes]
15256 Humeans cannot step in the same river twice, because they cannot strictly form the concept of 'river' [Harré/Madden]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
12853 Some individuate the ship by unity of matter, and others by unity of form [Hobbes]
17256 If a new ship were made of the discarded planks, would two ships be numerically the same? [Hobbes]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
16794 As an infant, Socrates was not the same body, but he was the same human being [Hobbes]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
17255 Two bodies differ when (at some time) you can say something of one you can't say of the other [Hobbes]