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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Abstract Objects' and 'Sameness and Substance'

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9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 1. Concept of Identity

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The relations featured in criteria of identity are always equivalence relations [Hale]

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

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

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

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Identity is primitive [Wiggins]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 3. Relative Identity

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We sometimes apply identity without having a real criterion [Hale]

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]

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]

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]