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Objects and Identity

An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences

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  1. Harold W. Noonan
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Part of the book series: Melbourne International Philosophy Series (MIPS, volume 6)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Absolute and Relative Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 1-15

  3. Diachronic Identity as Relative Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 16-21

  4. Synchronic Identity as Relative Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 22-24

  5. Quine on Synchronic Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 25-25

  6. Sortal Concepts and Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 26-35

  7. On the Notion of a Criterion of Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 36-51

  8. Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 52-61

  9. Restricted and Unrestricted Quantification

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 62-76

  10. Absolute Identity and Criteria of Identity Concluded

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 77-81

  11. Events, Continuants and Diachronic Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 82-106

  12. Counterpart Theory and the Necessity of Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 107-114

  13. Absolute and Relative Identity Concluded

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 115-128

  14. Can One Thing Become Two?

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 129-153

  15. Memory and Quasi-Memory

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 154-163

  16. Locke on Personal Identity

    • Harold W. Noonan
    Pages 164-171

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 172-176
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About this book

Identity has for long been an important concept in philosophy and logic. Plato in his Sophist puts same among those fonns which "run through" all others. The scholastics inherited the idea (and the tenninology), classifying same as one of the "transcendentals", i.e. as running through all the categories. The work of Locke and l.eibniz made the concept a problematic one. But it is rather recently, i.e. since the importance of Frege has been generally recognized, that there has been a keen interest in the notion, fonnulated by him, of a criterion of identity. This, at first sight harmless as well as useful, has proved to be like a charge of dynamite. The seed had indeed been sown long ago, by Euclid. In Book V of his Elements he first gives a useless defmition of a ratio: "A ratio is a sort of relation between two magnitudes in respect of muchness". But then, in definition 5 he answers, not the question "What is a ratio?" but rather ''What is it for magnitudes to be in the same ratio?" and this is the definition that does the work.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Objects and Identity

  • Book Subtitle: An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences

  • Authors: Harold W. Noonan

  • Series Title: Melbourne International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2466-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1980

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-247-2292-1Published: 30 April 1980

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8259-6Published: 25 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2466-1Published: 09 March 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 176

  • Topics: Philosophy, general, Epistemology

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