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All the ideas for 'What is so bad about Contradictions?', 'Letters to Blijenburgh' and 'Why Constitution is not Identity'

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9 ideas

2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction

9123	Someone standing in a doorway seems to be both in and not-in the room [Priest,G, by Sorensen]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay

16078

Clay is intrinsically and atomically the same as statue (and that lacks 'modal properties') [Rudder Baker]

16077

The clay is not a statue - it borrows that property from the statue it constitutes [Rudder Baker]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects

16080

Is it possible for two things that are identical to become two separate things? [Rudder Baker]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object

16076

Constitution is not identity, as consideration of essential predicates shows [Rudder Baker]

16081

The constitution view gives a unified account of the relation of persons/bodies, statues/bronze etc [Rudder Baker]

16082

Statues essentially have relational properties lacked by lumps [Rudder Baker]

28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections

7829	God no more has human perfections than we have animal perfections [Spinoza]

28. God / C. Attitudes to God / 4. God Reflects Humanity

7830	A talking triangle would say God is triangular [Spinoza]