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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Commentary on 'De Anima'' and 'works'

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

3144	Everything is what it is, and not another thing [Butler]
	Full Idea: Everything is what it is, and not another thing.
	From: Joseph Butler (works [1732]), quoted by Georges Rey - Contemporary Philosophy of Mind 2.4

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.