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All the ideas for 'poems', 'Aristotle and Kant on the Source of Value' and 'Material Constitution'

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11 ideas

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]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / j. Ethics by convention

6017	Nomos is king [Pindar]

22. Metaethics / B. Value / 1. Nature of Value / f. Ultimate value

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If we can't reason about value, we can reason about the unconditional source of value [Korsgaard]

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An end can't be an ultimate value just because it is useless! [Korsgaard]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / b. Types of good

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Goodness is given either by a psychological state, or the attribution of a property [Korsgaard]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / g. Contemplation

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Contemplation is final because it is an activity which is not a process [Korsgaard]

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For Aristotle, contemplation consists purely of understanding [Korsgaard]