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One might maintain that since thoughts are individuated by their contents, and some thought contents are partially constituted by objects external to the mind, then some thoughts are partly constituted by objects external to the mind.
On his new view, facts are, as before, constituted by objects and their properties; but what about propositions?
An explanation of the second kind, where the structure of reality explains that of thought, could go as follows: the world has a certain basic structure, being constituted by objects which have properties, which other objects can have as well.
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The vulgar object is constituted by different primary objects at different times.
It seems that what is doing the work in Johnston's solution is not just the distinction between constitution and identity, but a tacit restriction on when there is a 'higher-level' object constituted by certain 'lower-level' objects.
This image, indicated by Y i recall ( k + 1 ), is constituted by groups of objects.
One line of thought is that a work is "constituted" by a material object or vehicle, where the constitution relation is not a matter of identity (for background, see the entry on material constitution).
The objects constituted by these ingredients are not genuinely real, they are temporary mixtures with no autonomous metaphysical status: they are not things-that-are.
The Vaibhāṣika's realistic theory of the two truths and the Sautrāntika's representationalist theory of the two truths both affirm the ultimate reality of the physical objects constituted by the atoms.
"We find again the same orientation of the primary force of thought," says Cohen, "the abandonment of perception and its object constituted by empirical man: for the prophet, this [abandonment] is the ascent toward humanity; for the Greek, this abandonment amounts to the passage toward the state".
Is there an objective way of deciding how many objects are constituted by the lump of bronze that composes The Thinker? Are there only two things (statue and lump) or are there many more (paperweight, battering ram, etc).? And if there are more, what determines how many there are?
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