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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'What is a Law of Nature?' and 'Intro to III: Quantifiers'

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

17680	The identity of a thing with itself can be ruled out as a pseudo-property [Armstrong]
	Full Idea: There is reason to rule out as pseudo-properties such things as the identity of a thing with itself.
	From: David M. Armstrong (What is a Law of Nature? [1983], 06.2)
	A reaction: Good on you, David.

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects

15847	Two things relate either as same or different, or part of a whole, or the whole of the part [Plato]
	Full Idea: Everything is surely related to everything as follows: either it is the same or different; or, if it is not the same or different, it would be related as part to whole or as whole to part.
	From: Plato (Parmenides [c.364 BCE], 146b)
	A reaction: This strikes me as a really helpful first step in trying to analyse the nature of identity. Two things are either two or (actually) one, or related mereologically.