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Ideas for 'Why coherence is not enough', 'Natural Minds' and 'Mental Acts: their content and their objects'

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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 9. Sameness

11910	Being 'the same' is meaningless, unless we specify 'the same X' [Geach]
	Full Idea: "The same" is a fragmentary expression, and has no significance unless we say or mean "the same X", where X represents a general term. ...There is no such thing as being just 'the same'.
	From: Peter Geach (Mental Acts: their content and their objects [1957], §16)
	A reaction: Geach seems oddly unaware of the perfect identity of Hespherus with Phosphorus. His critics don't spot that he was concerned with identity over time (of 'the same man', who ages). Perry's critique emphasises the type/token distinction.