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Melbourne International Philosophy Series : 6
1980

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Autor(en) / Beteiligte
Titel
Objects and Identity : An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences
Ist Teil von
  • Melbourne International Philosophy Series : 6
Ort / Verlag
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
Erscheinungsjahr
1980
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Beschreibungen/Notizen
  • 1. Absolute and Relative Identity -- 2. Diachronic Identity as Relative Identity -- 3. Sychronic Identity as Relative Identity -- 4. Quine on Synchronic Identity -- 5. Sortal Concepts and Identity -- 6. On the Notion of a Criterion of Identity -- 7. Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity -- 8. Restricted and Unrestricted Quantification -- 9. Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity Concluded -- 10. Events, Continuants and Diachronic Identity -- 11. Counterpart Theory and the Necessity of Identity -- 12. Absolute and Relative Identity Concluded -- 13. Can One Thing Become Two? -- 14. Memory and Quasi-Memory -- 15. Locke on Personal Identity
  • Identity has for long been an important concept in philosophy and logic. Plato in his Sophist puts same among those fonns which "run through" all others. The scholastics inherited the idea (and the tenninology), classifying same as one of the "transcendentals", i.e. as running through all the categories. The work of Locke and l.eibniz made the concept a problematic one. But it is rather recently, i.e. since the importance of Frege has been generally recognized, that there has been a keen interest in the notion, fonnulated by him, of a criterion of identity. This, at first sight harmless as well as useful, has proved to be like a charge of dynamite. The seed had indeed been sown long ago, by Euclid. In Book V of his Elements he first gives a useless defmition of a ratio: "A ratio is a sort of relation between two magnitudes in respect of muchness". But then, in definition 5 he answers, not the question "What is a ratio?" but rather ''What is it for magnitudes to be in the same ratio?" and this is the definition that does the work
Sprache
Englisch
Identifikatoren
ISBN: 9789401724661
Titel-ID: 990018682600106463
Format
XIV, 176 p; online resource
Schlagworte
Philosophy (General), Genetic epistemology, Philosophy, Epistemology