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Ideas for 'Topics', 'Matters of Mind' and 'Naming and Necessity notes and addenda'

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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 5. Self-Identity
A relation can clearly be reflexive, and identity is the smallest reflexive relation [Kripke]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 9. Sameness
'Same' is mainly for names or definitions, but also for propria, and for accidents [Aristotle]
Two identical things have the same accidents, they are the same; if the accidents differ, they're different [Aristotle]
Numerical sameness and generic sameness are not the same [Aristotle]
A vague identity may seem intransitive, and we might want to talk of 'counterparts' [Kripke]