Combining Philosophers
Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, St Paul and Richard Cartwright
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / a. Scattered objects
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Clearly a pipe can survive being taken apart [Cartwright,R]
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Bodies don't becomes scattered by losing small or minor parts [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / a. Essence as necessary properties
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Essentialism says some of a thing's properties are necessary, and could not be absent [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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The difficulty in essentialism is deciding the grounds for rating an attribute as essential [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism
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Essentialism is said to be unintelligible, because relative, if necessary truths are all analytic [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity
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An act of ostension doesn't seem to need a 'sort' of thing, even of a very broad kind [Cartwright,R]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 4. Type Identity
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A token isn't a unique occurrence, as the case of a word or a number shows [Cartwright,R]
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