But to accept this is to accept that purely material entities, like statues and lumps of clay, of admittedly identical material constitution at all times, may nonetheless be distinct, though distinguished only by modal, dispositional or counterfactual properties.
The longest-lasting evidence on Earth of a human presence would be radioactive materials, ceramics, bronze statues, and Mount Rushmore.
Avoid doing material that the statue knows.
Build a box for pouring your mold material around your statue.
Their suggestion is that reflection on cases of material constitution (e.g., statues and the lumps of matter that constitute them) can help us to see how two things can be the same material object but otherwise different entities.
Their poses echo those on the nearby tombs of Louis XII and Francis I. Pilon's feel for the material, however, invests his statues with a greater sense of movement.
Most astonishingly, it sought to recreate 7,000 missing objects – friezes, intricate ceramics and votive statues – with materials fashioned from Arab newspapers and food packaging sourced from Middle Eastern neighbourhoods in the US.
From the material object perspective the statue is identical with the atoms that constitute it.
That is, one might specify the material cause of a statue more or less proximately, by specifying the character of the matter more or less precisely.
One defense of Locke's principle against this alleged counterexample is that these are not the same sort of thing so it does not violate the principle; another is to identify the statue and material, sustaining the principle by a different route.
