Single Idea 22143

[catalogued under 9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity]

Full Idea

To be really the same excludes being really other, but does not exclude being other modally or mentally.

Gist of Idea

Identity does not exclude possible or imagined difference

Source

report of Francisco Suárez (Disputationes metaphysicae [1597], 7.65) by Stephen Boulter - Why Medieval Philosophy Matters 4

Book Reference

Boulter,Stephen: 'Why Medieval Philosophy Matters' [Bloomsbury 2019], p.89


A Reaction

So the statue and the clay are identical, but they could become separate, or be imagined as separate.