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Ideas for 'works', 'Euthydemus' and 'Individuals without Sortals'

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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

17509	Some say a 'covering concept' completes identity; others place the concept in the reference [Ayers]
	Full Idea: Some hold that the 'covering concept' completes the incomplete concept of identity, determining the kind of sameness involved. Others strongly deny the identity itself is incomplete, and locate the covering concept within the necessary act of reference.
	From: M.R. Ayers (Individuals without Sortals [1974], Intro)
	A reaction: [a bit compressed; Geach is the first view, and Quine the second; Wiggins is somewhere between the two]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

17512	If diachronic identities need covering concepts, why not synchronic identities too? [Ayers]
	Full Idea: Why are covering concepts required for diachronic identities, when they must be supposed unnecessary for synchronic identities?
	From: M.R. Ayers (Individuals without Sortals [1974], 'Prob')