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'On the Law of War and Peace', 'Against Euthanasia' and 'Sameness and Substance'
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 2. Defining Identity
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Identity is primitive [Wiggins]
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Leibniz's Law (not transitivity, symmetry, reflexivity) marks what is peculiar to identity [Wiggins]
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Identity cannot be defined, because definitions are identities [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 6. Identity between Objects
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A is necessarily A, so if B is A, then B is also necessarily A [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 7. Indiscernible Objects
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By the principle of Indiscernibility, a symmetrical object could only be half of itself! [Wiggins]
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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 9. Sameness
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We want to explain sameness as coincidence of substance, not as anything qualitative [Wiggins]
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