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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'On the Individuation of Attributes' and 'On 'Physics''

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9 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 2. Types of Existence

16664

Everything that exists is either a substance or an accident [Albert of Saxony]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

18439

Because things can share attributes, we cannot individuate attributes clearly [Quine]

8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 5. Class Nominalism

18442

You only know an attribute if you know what things have it [Quine]

9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / a. Individuation

18441

No entity without identity (which requires a principle of individuation) [Quine]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 6. Successive Things

16703

God could make a successive thing so that previous parts cease to exist [Albert of Saxony]

16699

Successive entities just need parts to succeed one another, without their existence [Albert of Saxony]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 8. Continuity of Rivers

579	Cratylus said you couldn't even step into the same river once [Cratylus, by Aristotle]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

18440

Identity of physical objects is just being coextensive [Quine]

13. Knowledge Criteria / D. Scepticism / 1. Scepticism

578	Cratylus decided speech was hopeless, and his only expression was the movement of a finger [Cratylus, by Aristotle]