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'Parmenides', 'Physics' and 'Introduction to the Philosophy of History'
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / a. Intrinsic unification
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Natural objects include animals and their parts, plants, and the simple elements [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 1. Unifying an Object / b. Unifying aggregates
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Parts must belong to a created thing with a distinct form [Plato]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / a. Substance
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Substance is not predicated of anything - but it still has something underlying it, that originates it [Aristotle]
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We only infer underlying natures by analogy, observing bronze of a statue, or wood of a bed [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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A nature is related to a substance as shapeless matter is to something which has a shape [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / a. Hylomorphism
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Form, not matter, is a thing's nature, because it is actual, rather than potential [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / c. Form as causal
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A thing's form and purpose are often the same, and form can be the initiator of change too [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 2. Hylomorphism / d. Form as unifier
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Unity of the form is just unity of the definition [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 3. Matter of an Object
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In feature-generation the matter (such as bronze) endures, but in generation it doesn't [Aristotle, by Politis]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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In Parmenides, if composition is identity, a whole is nothing more than its parts [Plato, by Harte,V]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / a. Parts of objects
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Plato says only a one has parts, and a many does not [Plato, by Harte,V]
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Anything which has parts must be one thing, and parts are of a one, not of a many [Plato]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 8. Parts of Objects / c. Wholes from parts
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There is no whole except for the parts [Aristotle]
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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]
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We first sense whole entities, and then move to particular parts of it [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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The four explanations are the main aspects of a thing's nature [Aristotle, by Moravcsik]
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A thing's nature is what causes its changes and stability [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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Coming to be is by shape-change, addition, subtraction, composition or alteration [Aristotle]
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Natural things are their own source of stability through change [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things
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A day, or the games, has one thing after another, actually and potentially occurring [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 10. Beginning of an Object
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Coming-to-be may be from nothing in a qualified way, as arising from an absence [Aristotle]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
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Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part [Plato]
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