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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity

3314	Absolutists might accept that to exist is relative, but relative to what? How about relative to itself? [Benardete,JA]
	Full Idea: With the thesis that to be as such is to be relative, the absolutist may be found to concur, but the issue turns on what it might be that a thing is supposed to be relative to. Why not itself?
	From: José A. Benardete (Metaphysics: the logical approach [1989], Ch. 8)

3323	Maybe self-identity isn't existence, if Pegasus can be self-identical but non-existent [Benardete,JA]
	Full Idea: 'Existence' can't be glossed as self-identical (critics say) because Pegasus, even while being self-identical, fails to exist.
	From: José A. Benardete (Metaphysics: the logical approach [1989], Ch.11)