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Ideas of Harold Noonan, by Text
[British, fl. 1989, At Birmingham University.]
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p.2
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16014
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It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one
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§1
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p.2
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16015
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Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity
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§2
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p.2
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16018
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Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness
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p.2
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16016
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Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular
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p.2
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16017
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Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law
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p.3
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16019
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Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle
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p.4
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16020
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Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language
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p.13
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16023
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Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object
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p.14
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16024
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I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not
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