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All the ideas for 'Causal Connections', 'Librium de interpretatione editio secunda' and 'Hippias Major'

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity

14665	We can call the quality of Plato 'Platonity', and say it is a quality which only he possesses [Boethius]
	Full Idea: Let the incommunicable property of Plato be called 'Platonity'. For we can call this quality 'Platonity' by a fabricated word, in the way in which we call the quality of man 'humanity'. Therefore this Platonity is one man's alone - Plato's.
	From: Boethius (Librium de interpretatione editio secunda [c.516], PL64 462d), quoted by Alvin Plantinga - Actualism and Possible Worlds 5
	A reaction: Plantinga uses this idea to reinstate the old notion of a haecceity, to bestow unshakable identity on things. My interest in the quotation is that the most shocking confusions about properties arose long before the invention of set theory.

21. Aesthetics / A. Aesthetic Experience / 4. Beauty

299	What is fine is always difficult [Plato]
	Full Idea: The proverb says 'Anything fine is difficult'.
	From: Plato (Hippias Major [c.392 BCE], 304e)
	A reaction: attributed (as usual) to Solon

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 7. Art and Morality

297	What is fine is the parent of goodness [Plato]
	Full Idea: Fineness is the father of goodness.
	From: Plato (Hippias Major [c.392 BCE], 297b)

25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 5. Sexual Morality

298	While sex is very pleasant, it should be in secret, as it looks contemptible [Plato]
	Full Idea: As for sex, everyone agrees that, while it is extremely pleasant, it should be indulged in (if at all) in secret, because it is a highly contemptible sight.
	From: Plato (Hippias Major [c.392 BCE], 299a)

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 8. Particular Causation / b. Causal relata

4784	Salmon says processes rather than events should be basic in a theory of physical causation [Salmon, by Psillos]
	Full Idea: Salmon argues that processes rather than events should be the basic entities in a theory of physical causation.
	From: report of Wesley Salmon (Causal Connections [1984]) by Stathis Psillos - Causation and Explanation §4.2
	A reaction: It increasingly strikes me that the concept of a 'process' ought to be ontologically basic. Edelman says the mind is a process. An 'event' is too loose, and a 'fact' too vague, and heaven knows what Hume meant by an 'object'.