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'fragments/reports', 'A Survey of Metaphysics' and 'Prescriptivism'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Conventionalists see the world as an amorphous lump without identities, but are we part of the lump? [Lowe]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Dion and Theon coexist, but Theon lacks a foot. If Dion loses a foot, he ousts Theon? [Chrysippus, by Philo of Alexandria]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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Statues can't survive much change to their shape, unlike lumps of bronze, which must retain material [Lowe]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Change of matter doesn't destroy identity - in Dion and Theon change is a condition of identity [Chrysippus, by Long/Sedley]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 9. Ship of Theseus
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If old parts are stored and then appropriated, they are no longer part of the original (which is the renovated ship). [Lowe]
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If 5% replacement preserves a ship, we can replace 4% and 4% again, and still retain the ship [Lowe]
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A renovation or a reconstruction of an original ship would be accepted, as long as the other one didn't exist [Lowe]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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Identity of Indiscernibles (same properties, same thing) ) is not Leibniz's Law (same thing, same properties) [Lowe]
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