Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Lynch,MP/Glasgow,JM, Gideon Rosen and John Duns Scotus
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / d. Problems with abstracta
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How we refer to abstractions is much less clear than how we refer to other things [Rosen]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects
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A Meinongian principle might say that there is an object for any modest class of properties [Rosen]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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We distinguish one thing from another by contradiction, because this is, and that is not [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
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Scotus said a substantial principle of individuation [haecceitas] was needed for an essence [Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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The haecceity is the featureless thing which gives ultimate individuality to a substance [Duns Scotus, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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'Unity' is a particularly difficult word, because things can have hidden unity [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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It is absurd that there is no difference between a genuinely unified thing, and a mere aggregate [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Substance is an intrinsic thing, so parts of substances can't also be intrinsic things [Duns Scotus]
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Substance is only grasped under the general heading of 'being' [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
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Matter and form give true unity; subject and accident is just unity 'per accidens' [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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What prevents a stone from being divided into parts which are still the stone? [Duns Scotus]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 2. Types of Essence
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Avicenna and Duns Scotus say essences have independent and prior existence [Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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Two things are different if something is true of one and not of the other [Duns Scotus]
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