Combining Texts

Ideas for 'Matter and Memory', 'Cognition of Value in Aristotle's Ethics' and 'Essays on Intellectual Powers 3: Memory'

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

display all the ideas for this combination of texts


4 ideas

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 1. Objects over Time
Continuity is needed for existence, otherwise we would say a thing existed after it ceased to exist [Reid]
9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 13. No Identity over Time
We treat slowly changing things as identical for the sake of economy in language [Reid]
9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity
Identity is familiar to common sense, but very hard to define [Reid]
Identity can only be affirmed of things which have a continued existence [Reid]