Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Concerning the Author', 'Some Models for Implicature' and 'Sameness and Substance'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

6 ideas

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity

16497

Leibniz's Law (not transitivity, symmetry, reflexivity) marks what is peculiar to identity [Wiggins]

16502

Identity is primitive [Wiggins]

16498

Identity cannot be defined, because definitions are identities [Wiggins]

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

16521

A is necessarily A, so if B is A, then B is also necessarily A [Wiggins]

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

16505

By the principle of Indiscernibility, a symmetrical object could only be half of itself! [Wiggins]

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

16494

We want to explain sameness as coincidence of substance, not as anything qualitative [Wiggins]