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'Parmenides', 'Letter to Weber' and 'What is the Source of Knowledge of Modal Truths?'
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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 / 3. Unity Problems / c. Statue and clay
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The essence of lumps and statues shows that two objects coincide but are numerically distinct [Lowe]
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The essence of a bronze statue shows that it could be made of different bronze [Lowe]
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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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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 / 4. Essence as Definition
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Grasping an essence is just grasping a real definition [Lowe]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 8. Essence as Explanatory
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Explanation can't give an account of essence, because it is too multi-faceted [Lowe]
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 14. Knowledge of Essences
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If we must know some entity to know an essence, we lack a faculty to do that [Lowe]
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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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