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Ideas of Robert Pasnau, by Text
[American, fl. 2011, Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.]
2011
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Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671
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02.5
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p.29
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16579
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There may be different types of substrate, or temporary substrates
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02.5
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p.29
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16580
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A substrate may be 'prime matter', which endures through every change
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02.5
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p.30
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16581
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Scholastic authors agree that matter was created by God, out of nothing
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02.5
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p.33
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16583
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Weak ex nihilo says it all comes from something; strong version says the old must partly endure
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02.5
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p.33
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16584
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If a substrate gives causal support for change, quite a lot of the ingredients must endure
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03.1
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p.38
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16586
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The commentaries of Averroes were the leading guide to Aristotle
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03.2
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p.41
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16592
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Atomism is the commonest version of corpuscularianism, but isn't required by it
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03.3
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p.49
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16596
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A substratum can't be 'bare', because it has a job to do
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04.3
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p.63
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16598
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Priority was a major topic of dispute for scholastics
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04.5
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p.75
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16602
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Corpuscularianism rejected not only form, but also the dependence of matter on form
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04.5
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p.76
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16603
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In the 17th C matter became body, and was then studied by science
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05.1
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p.77
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16604
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Philosophy consists of choosing between Plato, Aristotle and Democritus
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05.1
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p.77
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16605
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After c.1450 all of Plato was available. Before that, only the first half of 'Timaeus' was known
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05.1
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p.79
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16606
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Original philosophers invariably seek inspiration from past thinkers
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05.3
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p.84
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16607
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Renaissance Platonism is peripheral
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05.4
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p.91
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16609
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Atomists say causation is mechanical collisions, and all true qualities are microscopic
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05.5
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p.93
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16610
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Philosophy could easily have died in 17th century, if it weren't for Descartes
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06.1
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p.101
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16612
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Hylomorphism may not be a rival to science, but an abstract account of unity and endurance
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06.1
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p.101
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16613
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Hylomorphism declined because scholastics made it into a testable physical theory
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06.1
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p.102
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16615
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Scholastics use 'substantia' for thick concrete entities, and for thin metaphysical ones
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06.2
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p.105
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16617
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Corpuscularian critics of scholasticism say only substances exist
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07.3
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p.129
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16628
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Corpuscularianism promised a decent account of substance
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1.1
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p.1
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16568
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Modernity begins in the late 12th century, with Averroes's commentaries on Aristotle
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10.3
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p.185
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16642
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Transubstantion says accidents of bread and wine don't inhere in the substance
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11.2
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p.208
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16649
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Scholastics say there is a genuine thing if it is 'separable'
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12.1
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p.222
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16653
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Once accidents were seen as real, 'Categories' became the major text for ontology
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13.1
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p.244
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16662
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The biggest question for scholastics is whether properties are real, or modes of substances
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14.1
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p.280
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16671
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Scholastic Quantity either gives a body parts, or spreads them out in a unified way
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14.3
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p.291
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16677
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Anti-Razor: if you can't account for a truth, keep positing things until you can
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14.4
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p.297
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16680
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Scholastics thought Quantity could be the principle of individuation
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18.1
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p.378
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16694
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Typical successive things are time and motion
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19.3
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p.408
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16704
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In 1347, the Church effectively stopped philosophy for the next 300 years
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20.2
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p.442
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16715
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Plato only made an impact locally in 15th century Italy
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21.2
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p.468
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16722
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Scholastic causation is by changes in the primary qualities of hot, cold, wet, dry
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22.3
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p.500
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16727
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In mixtures, the four elements ceased to exist, replaced by a mixed body with a form
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23.1
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p.519
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16732
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17th C qualities are either microphysical, or phenomenal, or powers
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23.1
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p.519
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16733
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17th century authors only recognised categorical properties, never dispositions
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23.5
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p.535
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16738
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Scholastics reject dispositions, because they are not actual, as forms require
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23.5
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p.538
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16741
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Scholastics wanted to treat Aristotelianism as physics, rather than as metaphysics
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24.1
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p.549
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16747
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Scholastics made forms substantial, in a way unintended by Aristotle
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24.1
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p.550
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16748
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Aquinas says a substance has one form; Scotists say it has many forms
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24.1
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p.551
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16749
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Aristotelians deny that all necessary properties are essential
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24.2
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p.555
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16750
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If there are just arrangements of corpuscles, where are the boundaries between substances?
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24.2
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p.563
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16759
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Scholastics began to see substantial form more as Aristotle's 'efficient' cause
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24.4
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p.564
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16760
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Substantial forms were a step towards scientific essentialism
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25.2
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p.580
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16767
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There is no centralised power, but we still need essence for a metaphysical understanding
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25.3
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p.584
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16769
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If clay survives destruction of the statue, the statue wasn't a substance, but a mere accident
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26.1
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p.606
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16775
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For corpuscularians, a substance is just its integral parts
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26.1
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p.609
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16777
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If crowds are things at all, they seem to be Substances, since they bear properties
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26.6
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p.632
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16781
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The 17th century is a metaphysical train wreck
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27.5
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p.648
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16783
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Essences must explain, so we can infer them causally from the accidents
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27.6
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p.654
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16785
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If you reject essences, questions of individuation become extremely difficult
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28.2
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p.669
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16788
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Instead of adding Aristotelian forms to physical stuff, one could add dispositions
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