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'Parmenides', 'Every Thing Must Go' and 'The Logic of Decision'
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 1. Physical Objects
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Things are constructs for tracking patterns (and not linguistic, because animals do it) [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation
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Maybe individuation can be explained by thermodynamic depth [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 6. Nihilism about Objects
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Physics seems to imply that we must give up self-subsistent individuals [Ladyman/Ross]
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There is no single view of individuals, because different sciences operate on different scales [Ladyman/Ross]
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There are no cats in quantum theory, and no mountains in astrophysics [Ladyman/Ross]
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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 / 1. Unifying an Object / c. Unity as conceptual
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Things are abstractions from structures [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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The idea of composition, that parts of the world are 'made of' something, is no longer helpful [Ladyman/Ross]
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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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It seems that the One must be composed of parts, which contradicts its being one [Plato]
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A sum of things is not a whole if the whole does not support some new generalisation [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 13. Nominal Essence
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We treat the core of a pattern as an essence, in order to keep track of it [Ladyman/Ross]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
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A continuous object might be a type, with instances at each time [Ladyman/Ross]
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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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