Single Idea 13400

[catalogued under 9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay]

Full Idea

A single entity is a physical object, a piece of clay and a statue. We seem to have that the object could be scattered, but not the other two; the object and the clay could be spherical, but not the statue; and only the object could have different matter.

Gist of Idea

If one entity is an object, a statue, and some clay, these come apart in at least three ways

Source

Michael Jubien (Possibility [2009], 5.2)

Book Reference

Jubien,Michael: 'Possibility' [OUP 2009], p.129


A Reaction

His proposal, roughly, is to reduce object-talk to property-talk, and then see the three views of this object as referring to different sets of properties, rather than to a single thing. Promising, except that he goes platonist about properties.