Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Willard Quine and George Boolos

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects

1628	If physical objects are a myth, they are useful for making sense of experience [Quine]

8498	Treating scattered sensations as single objects simplifies our understanding of experience [Quine]

8464	Physical objects in space-time are just events or processes, no matter how disconnected [Quine]

9018	A physical object is the four-dimensional material content of a portion of space-time [Quine]

7924	The notion of a physical object is by far the most useful one for science [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / a. Nature of abstracta

10487

I am a fan of abstract objects, and confident of their existence [Boolos]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / b. Need for abstracta

13387

Our conceptual scheme becomes more powerful when we posit abstract objects [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

10489

We deal with abstract objects all the time: software, poems, mistakes, triangles.. [Boolos]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 4. Impossible objects

15783

Definite descriptions can't unambiguously pick out an object which doesn't exist [Lycan on Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

8277	I prefer 'no object without identity' to Quine's 'no entity without identity' [Lowe on Quine]

18441

No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine]

9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts

12887

A whole must have one characteristic, an internal relation, and a structure [Rescher/Oppenheim]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 9. Essence and Properties

10923

Aristotelian essentialism says a thing has some necessary and some non-necessary properties [Quine]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 15. Against Essentialism

10929

Aristotelian essence of the object has become the modern essence of meaning [Quine]

10930

Quantification into modal contexts requires objects to have an essence [Quine]

8482	Mathematicians must be rational but not two-legged, cyclists the opposite. So a mathematical cyclist? [Quine]

12136

Cyclist are not actually essentially two-legged [Brody on Quine]

13590

Essences can make sense in a particular context or enquiry, as the most basic predicates [Quine]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

9019	Four-d objects helps predication of what no longer exists, and quantification over items from different times [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

17595

To unite a sequence of ostensions to make one object, a prior concept of identity is needed [Quine]

18965

We know what things are by distinguishing them, so identity is part of ontology [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

17594

We can paraphrase 'x=y' as a sequence of the form 'if Fx then Fy' [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

18440

Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

11095

We should just identify any items which are indiscernible within a given discourse [Quine]