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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Contemporary Philosophy of Mind' and 'On Husserl'

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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.

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects

3145	The Indiscernibility of Identicals is a truism; but the Identity of Indiscernibles depends on possible identical worlds [Rey]
	Full Idea: Leibniz's Law, the indiscernibility of identicals, is a truism which should not be confused with the more controversial identity of indiscernibles, which depends on the possibility of perfectly replicated universes.
	From: Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], 2.4)