Ideas of Michael Burke, by Theme

[Australian, fl. 1992, Lecturer at Victoria University, Australia.]

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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / e. Individuation by kind
16235 Persistence conditions cannot contradict, so there must be a 'dominant sortal' [Hawley]
14753 The 'dominant' of two coinciding sortals is the one that entails the widest range of properties [Sider]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
16072 'The rock' either refers to an object, or to a collection of parts, or to some stuff [Wasserman]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
14751 Tib goes out of existence when the tail is lost, because Tib was never the 'cat' [Sider]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
13278 Maybe the clay becomes a different lump when it becomes a statue [Koslicki]
16071 Sculpting a lump of clay destroys one object, and replaces it with another one [Wasserman]
16234 Burke says when two object coincide, one of them is destroyed in the process [Hawley]
9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / d. Coincident objects
14750 Two entities can coincide as one, but only one of them (the dominant sortal) fixes persistence conditions [Sider]