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Notes

  1. P. T. Geach introduces inReference and Generality (Ithaca, 1962)

  2. ‘Wiggins on Identity’,Philosophical Review 79 (1970)

  3. Shoemaker (1971), pp. 104–105.

  4. Wiggins (1980), pp. 30–34.

  5. Longer note 1.19, p. 197.

  6. Henry Laycock in ‘Theories of Matter’, one of whose arguments I shall discuss below. (Synthese 31 [1975], reprinted inMass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems, F. J. Pelletier (ed.) [Dordrecht/Boston, 1979], Section 4.)

  7. Word and Object, p. 97f.

  8. N. Griffin,Relative Identity (Oxford, 1977), pp. 60–61.

  9. From theAmerican Heritage Dictionary (New York, 1969).

  10. Jespersen (1963, p. 181).

  11. Hacker, ‘Substance: the Constitution of Reality’,Midwest Studies in Philosophy IV:Studies in Metaphysics (1979), pp. 239–61.

  12. Hacker, p. 248.

  13. Noam Chomsky, ‘Remarks on Nominalization’ (Readings in English Transformational Grammar, R. Jacobs and P. Rosenbaum (eds) [Waltham, 1970], pp. 184–221)

  14. Essentials of English Grammar [London, 1933],21.3, 21.4

  15. Hacker, p. 243f.

  16. H. M. Cartwright,Classes, Quantities and Non-Singular Reference, Ph. D. dissertation (Ann Arbor, 1963), especially 2.7 and 9.3

  17. ‘Heraclitus and the Bath Water’,Philosophical Review 74 (1965), p. 481.

  18. Word and Object, p. 164f.

  19. Jackendoff (1977, pp. 120ff.)

  20. H. M. Cartwright, ‘Amounts and Measures of Amount’,Nous 9 (1975), reprinted in Pelletier (ed.,) notes 9, 10

  21. ‘Theories of Matter’, in Pelletier (ed.) (1979).

  22. pp. 99–100.

  23. p. 100.

  24. p. 101.

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Cartwright, H.M. Parts and partitives: Notes on what things are made of. Synthese 58, 251–277 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03055307

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