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MetaphysicsAdvanced21 minPlanned

The Problem of Material Constitution

The statue and the clay share every part yet appear to differ in their modal properties

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This rung already has its place in the Metaphysics ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definematerial constitutioncoincident objectsdominant sortalconstitution without identity
Assumesthe ship of Theseussortalnumerical identityLeibniz's lawthe identity of indiscerniblesessential property

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