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Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times [Oresme]
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Full Idea:
For any time, some of a successive entity exists in one of its parts, and a totally different such exists in another part. …It is in continuous flux and transition, ..and flows in existence if it does not have the same existence over a whole time.
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From:
Nicole Oresme (On 'Physics' [1346], III.6, dist.1), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 18.1
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A reaction:
Pasnau says the successive entity is the whole made up of these changing parts, so it sounds very like the temporal stages view of Sider and Hawley.
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If everyone is treated with equal injustice, at least that is fair [Morgenbesser]
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Full Idea:
When the police hit me over the head at the demonstration, it was unjust but at least it was fair, because they hit everybody else over the head.
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From:
Sidney Morgenbesser (talk [1970]), quoted by PG - Db (ideas)
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A reaction:
An example of Morganbesser's famous wit, but this is the perfect and simplest riposte to Rawls's claim that justice is fairness. Horrific injustices can be distributed fairly, and often are, in prisons, schools, families and armies.
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