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All the ideas for 'Material Constitution', 'From Stimulus to Science' and 'Explanation in Mathematics'

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7 ideas

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

6564	To affirm 'p and not-p' is to have mislearned 'and' or 'not' [Quine]

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 / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

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Essences are no use in mathematics, if all mathematical truths are necessary [Mancosu]

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]