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'Parmenides', 'Metaphysics: the logical approach' and 'Human, All Too Human'
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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 / C. Structure of Objects / 5. Composition of an Object
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Why should packed-together particles be a thing (Mt Everest), but not scattered ones? [Benardete,JA]
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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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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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Could a horse lose the essential property of being a horse, and yet continue to exist? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 2. Objects that Change
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If a soldier continues to exist after serving as a soldier, does the wind cease to exist after it ceases to blow? [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers
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One can step into the same river twice, but not into the same water [Benardete,JA]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity
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Absolutists might accept that to exist is relative, but relative to what? How about relative to itself? [Benardete,JA]
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Maybe self-identity isn't existence, if Pegasus can be self-identical but non-existent [Benardete,JA]
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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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