PHIL 10100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Temporal Parts, Fetus
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Say we took a lump of clay and made it into a statue. That didn"t exist until we made it and we brought it into existence. Are they identical? no- the lump of clay existed before i made the statue and the statue didn"t. the o clay preexisted the act statue exists. Existence: before the action a lump of clay exists, and after the action the. Survival: the lump of clay continues to exist after the sculptors actions. Creation: the statue comes into existence when the sculptor makes it. After the sculptors action the lump of clay and the sculpture have different. Leibniz"s law: if x and y have diff properties at the same time, then x. The statue does not equal the lump of clay properties: one existed before the sculptor"s action, and one did not does not = y. The statue and the clay occupy the same location at the same time.
