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Single Idea 16073

[catalogued under 9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law]

Full Idea

Geach rejects the standard formulation of Leibniz's Law as incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate.

Gist of Idea

Leibniz's Law is incomplete, since it includes a non-relativized identity predicate

Source

report of Peter Geach (Reference and Generality (3rd ed) [1980]) by Ryan Wasserman - Material Constitution 6

Book Reference

'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.16


A Reaction

Not many people accept Geach's premiss that identity is a relative matter. I agree with Wiggins on this, that identity is an absolute (and possibly indefinable). The problem with the Law is what you mean by a 'property'.