1504 | Something must be unchanging to make recognition and knowledge possible [Aristotle on Parmenides] |
12503 | Identity means that the idea of a thing remains the same over time [Locke] |
13182 | Changeable accidents are modifications of unchanging essences [Leibniz] |
21299 | Changing a part can change the whole, not absolutely, but by its proportion of the whole [Hume] |
21300 | A change more obviously destroys an identity if it is quick and observed [Hume] |
1350 | Continuity is needed for existence, otherwise we would say a thing existed after it ceased to exist [Reid] |
5626 | An a priori principle of persistence anticipates all experience [Kant] |
16991 | No one seems to know the identity conditions for a material object (or for people) over time [Kripke] |
16503 | 'What is it?' gives the kind, nature, persistence conditions and identity over time of a thing [Wiggins] |
9663 | A thing 'perdures' if it has separate temporal parts, and 'endures' if it is wholly present at different times [Lewis] |
16025 | If things change they become different - but then no one thing undergoes the change! [Gallois] |
16233 | Gallois hoped to clarify identity through time, but seems to make talk of it impossible [Hawley on Gallois] |
14958 | A continuous object might be a type, with instances at each time [Ladyman/Ross] |
15396 | Most criteria for identity over time seem to leave two later objects identical to the earlier one [Cameron] |
22612 | Endurance and perdurance just show the consequences of A or B series time [Ingthorsson] |
22625 | Science suggests causal aspects of the constitution and persistance of objects [Ingthorsson] |