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'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Sententia on 'Posterior Analytics'' and 'How Things Persist'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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An object is 'natural' if its stages are linked by certain non-supervenient relations [Hawley]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / b. Cat and its tail
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Are sortals spatially maximal - so no cat part is allowed to be a cat? [Hawley]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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The modal features of statue and lump are disputed; when does it stop being that statue? [Hawley]
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Perdurantists can adopt counterpart theory, to explain modal differences of identical part-sums [Hawley]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / e. Vague objects
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Vagueness is either in our knowledge, in our talk, or in reality [Hawley]
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Indeterminacy in objects and in properties are not distinct cases [Hawley]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 6. Constitution of an Object
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The constitution theory is endurantism plus more than one object in a place [Hawley]
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Constitution theory needs sortal properties like 'being a sweater' to distinguish it from its thread [Hawley]
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If the constitution view says thread and sweater are two things, why do we talk of one thing? [Hawley]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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The problem of change arises if there must be 'identity' of a thing over time [Hawley]
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'Adverbialism' explains change by saying an object has-at-some-time a given property [Hawley]
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Presentism solves the change problem: the green banana ceases, so can't 'relate' to the yellow one [Hawley]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 3. Three-Dimensionalism
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Endurance theory can relate properties to times, or timed instantiations to properties [Hawley]
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Endurance is a sophisticated theory, covering properties, instantiation and time [Hawley]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism
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Perdurance says things are sums of stages; Stage Theory says each stage is the thing [Hawley]
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How does perdurance theory explain our concern for our own future selves? [Hawley]
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Perdurance needs an atemporal perspective, to say that the object 'has' different temporal parts [Hawley]
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If an object is the sum of all of its temporal parts, its mass is staggeringly large! [Hawley]
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If a life is essentially the sum of its temporal parts, it couldn't be shorter or longer than it was? [Hawley]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts
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Stage Theory says every stage is a distinct object, which gives too many objects [Hawley]
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Stage Theory seems to miss out the link between stages of the same object [Hawley]
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The stages of Stage Theory seem too thin to populate the world, or to be referred to [Hawley]
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An isolated stage can't be a banana (which involves suitable relations to other stages) [Hawley]
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Stages of one thing are related by extrinsic counterfactual and causal relations [Hawley]
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Stages must be as fine-grained in length as change itself, so any change is a new stage [Hawley]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law
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If two things might be identical, there can't be something true of one and false of the other [Hawley]
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