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All the ideas for 'God and Human Attributes', 'The Law of Peoples' and 'Identity'

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11 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / c. Counting procedure

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It is controversial whether only 'numerical identity' allows two things to be counted as one [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 4. Four-Dimensionalism

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I could have died at five, but the summation of my adult stages could not [Noonan]

9. Objects / E. Objects over Time / 5. Temporal Parts

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Stage theorists accept four-dimensionalism, but call each stage a whole object [Noonan]

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

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Problems about identity can't even be formulated without the concept of identity [Noonan]

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Identity is usually defined as the equivalence relation satisfying Leibniz's Law [Noonan]

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Identity definitions (such as self-identity, or the smallest equivalence relation) are usually circular [Noonan]

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Identity can only be characterised in a second-order language [Noonan]

9. Objects / F. Identity among Objects / 8. Leibniz's Law

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Indiscernibility is basic to our understanding of identity and distinctness [Noonan]

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Leibniz's Law must be kept separate from the substitutivity principle [Noonan]

24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people

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Rawls rejected cosmopolitanism because it doesn't respect the autonomy of 'peoples' [Rawls, by Shorten]

28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / c. Moral Argument

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God must be fit for worship, but worship abandons morally autonomy, but there is no God [Rachels, by Davies,B]