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Ideas of Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J, by Text
[American, fl. 1999, Professors at Purdue and Syracuse Universities.]
1999
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Substance and Individuation in Leibniz
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1.1.1
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p.15
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We can ask for the nature of substance, about type of substance, and about individual substances
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1.1.2
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p.16
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The general assumption is that substances cannot possibly be non-substances
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1.1.2
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p.18
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We can go beyond mere causal explanations if we believe in an 'order of being'
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1.2.2
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p.22
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Modern essences are sets of essential predicate-functions
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2.2
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p.24
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Modern essentialists express essence as functions from worlds to extensions for predicates
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2.2.1
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p.65
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Scholastics treat relations as two separate predicates of the relata
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3.2.2 n46
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p.122
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Even extreme modal realists might allow transworld identity for abstract objects
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7.3
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p.269
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Maybe 'substance' is more of a mass-noun than a count-noun
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7.4.1
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p.271
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Necessity-of-origin won't distinguish ex nihilo creations, or things sharing an origin
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7.4.1
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p.273
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If you individuate things by their origin, you still have to individuate the origins themselves
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7.4.1
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p.274
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Numerical difference is a symmetrical notion, unlike proper individuation
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7.4.4
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p.278
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Haecceity as property, or as colourless thisness, or as singleton set
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