Metaphysical Disputes

Ontological disputes tend to involve your intuitions
concerning relations between the statue and the clay,
between persons and their bodies, those concerning
personal identity and identity through time.
Let us suppose for a while that there exists a
multiplicity of entities and that the ontologist is dealing with
them. There is a chunk of the matter that I observe. It is a
body. But the description of the chunk of the matter as a
body may perhaps be substituted by another description:
there is a person here. Once a person is mentioned, we
will tend to be attentive at other things as we were in the
former case. We will be observing patterns of bodily
behavior, concerning not just its spatio-temporal position,
but also patterns involving this body"s acting as a person,
with its various deeds and with the dynamics in several
dimensions such as physical, inter-personal and aesthetic
dimensions that in involves. Now you ask yourself whether
the person is identical to her body.