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All the ideas for 'Material Constitution', 'Concepts of supervenience' and 'The Philosophy of Leibniz'

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7 ideas

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 5. Linguistic Analysis

7529	All philosophy should begin with an analysis of propositions [Russell]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / a. Nature of supervenience

3536	Supervenient properties must have matching base properties [Kim]

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

16065

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

16067

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

16069

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

16068

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]