Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'The Problem of Empty Names', 'On Signs (damaged)' and 'Material Constitution'

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7 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / F. Referring in Logic / 1. Naming / e. Empty names

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Unreflectively, we all assume there are nonexistents, and we can refer to them [Reimer]

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

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Constitution is identity (being in the same place), or it isn't (having different possibilities) [Wasserman]

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Constitution is not identity, because it is an asymmetric dependence relation [Wasserman]

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There are three main objections to seeing constitution as different from identity [Wasserman]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects

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The weight of a wall is not the weight of its parts, since that would involve double-counting [Wasserman]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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Relative identity may reject transitivity, but that suggests that it isn't about 'identity' [Wasserman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 3. Limits of Induction

6027	From the fact that some men die, we cannot infer that they all do [Philodemus]