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Ideas for Anaximenes, Jesus and Harold Noonan

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9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

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Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan]

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Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan]

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Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan]

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Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan]

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Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan]