Questions tagged [identity]
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What would be Gilbert Ryle's necessary and sufficient conditions for being a human being?
One of my students asked me this question and I can't answer it. I thought it was a great question. Any suggestions on an equally good answer?
(I'm not a trained philosopher, I'm a historian. I teach ...
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Is the assertion of a moral imperative in complying with a person's self-attested "gender" consistent with broader principles of declared attributes?
The Wikipedia style guide discusses how if a person states that they consider themselves a particular gender, selects a name for themselves in conjunction with a change in gender, and asserts ...
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Is the moment of change numerically identical with the time it occurs?
Is the moment of change numerically identical with the time it occurs?
If the moment of change is today at noon, is that the exact same time as today at noon, whatever it is else happens then?
It may ...
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A question on quantified modal logic
I originally posted this on math.stackexchange.com, but I’m cross-posting it since I know there are good modal logicians on here too.
Also, I already asked a similar question here: Identity in ...
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Would a universal (tran)set violate the law of identity?
At least, here's the argument that opened the question for me:
The anticlass-theory principle: there are no discrete proper classes. There are intensional elementhood parameters such that if some set ...
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Is an "R connection" really all we care about in terms of personal identity?
Derek Parfit in his article Reasons and Persons brings the following scenario - your brain is split in 2 pieces, each capable of surviving on their own, and transplanted into 2 other people (Righty ...
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Is the bardo forever?
Consciousness as such is - I think - said to be made of vague parts; it has parts that are vague, e.g. the sensation of seeing red. I think this means that borderline cases of my consciousness exist ...
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Why does A in Max Black's "Identity of Indiscernibles" assert that there is nothing verifiably different between the twin world and no-twin world?
i just finished "Identity of Indiscernibles" by Max Black and I'm a bit confused.
In Max Black's paper, A (the character that asserts that the identity of indiscernibles is true) says to B (...
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Is there a theory of identity that covers potentiality for certain traits?
I know that there are many different theories of personal identity, such as the embodied mind theory, the psychological continuity theory of identity, etc.
Is there an account of personal identity ...
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The necessity of shine in Hegel's Logic
In the Doctrine of Essence Hegel begins with shine [schein] as
"all that remains of the sphere of being" (WL, p.342).
He further qualifies it as a
"nothingness or a lack of essence......
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Looking for the name of "if everyone is x, no one is x"
Usually when I browse this forum, I see many people ask for the names of fallacies. Currently, I'm looking for the name of the philosophical position that goes something like, "if everyone is x, ...
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Contradictions with the word 'same'
We know in Language we have an affinity for the word 'Same', I've noticed that when we used it with respect to objects and people, my question is whether this is a particular problem with definition ...
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What are the strong arguments against the reassembly of the Ship of Theseus?
I've been thinking a lot about the Ship of Theseus puzzle, and I find the most convincing solution to be that the ship that comes from the reassembly of the original parts is in fact numerically ...
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What is it when someone from some group (ethnic, religious, disability, etc.) can automatically talk for others from it?
Is there a term for being for and against the view that (only) someone from some group (ethnic, religious, disability, etc.) can automatically talk for others from it?
It's kind of a political and ...
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Why is logical possibility relevant to the persistence questions of personal identity?
I can imagine splitting my brain in two and placing the individual hemispheres in individual bodies. This affects the psychological continuity view of personal identity because then I would not be ...
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Are there any arguments for why something past-eternal must necessarily be future-eternal as well?
If we assume that something has always existed in the past, what reason is there to assume that it won't perish in the future?
I pondered on it and I wondered whether the following argument works: ...
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Does anyone say that mind/brain type identity theory is just vacuous without scientific evidence that some part brain state is always the exact same?
Does anyone say that mind/brain type identity theory is just vacuous without scientific evidence that some part brain state is always the exact same experience? I think that's what type identity ...
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Axiomatic Proof of Symmetry and Transitivity of Identity
Given the axioms below and the rules of Modus Ponens and Universal Generalization, how can you prove that t=s → s=t for any terms s and t? Additionally, how do you prove that t = s → (s = r → t = r) ? ...
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Who are the contemporary proponents of the metalinguistic view about idenity statements?
I am looking for contemporary proponents of the following thesis:
Identity statements such as "a = b" are to be interpreted metalingustically, for example as "the names "a" and "b" are coreferential"....
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Same vs identical vs equal objects
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Consider two objects made from the same factory without any difference (an ideal scenario). Can we say that the two objects are the same? I would say no because one may be produced earlier ...
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Paradox of the Loving "I": Is there any theory to answer my Paradox?
I came up with this when I was reading about the Paradox of Fiction in one of my Aesthetic philosophy texts. Here it is:
The Paradox of the Loving Individual:
(1) One experiences themselves as a ...
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Can everything have a vague identity?
For any objects, it is traditionally assumed that that either the
objects are identical or distinct, and not both. Vague identity is a
view that rejects this absoluteness of identity. Its proponents ...
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Explaining the existence vs. explaining the nonexistence of necessary beings
I understand that I am waiving issues like the absolute/relative simplicity/complexity distinction, the difference between the logic of existence and the logic of nonexistence per se, etc., so I ...
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Could a being be defined as such that its transworld identity is identical to its in-world identity?
I was reading through Collier[21], which is about Lewisian theism, alongside the SEP article on transworld identity, and have assumed that:
The concept of transworld identity (TI) is not necessarily ...
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How to prove in SOL the validity of the identity of indiscernibles?
I found an exercise page 126 of the book 'Logic for Philosophy' by Sider. The exercise asks to prove in second-order logic the identity of indiscernibles. I tried to write a proof ex absurdo, but I ...
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John Locke on socks and identity : reference request
I am aware that the question is somewhat vague, but I am trying to locate where in Locke's writings the argument about identity – exemplified with him repairing his socks again and again – is to be ...
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Are there any book recommendation for identity, especially personal identity or metaphysics？
I have studied philosophy on my own for a long time and gained overall impression on the history of philosophy. And I am interested in self-consciousness，particular in personal identity. Recently I ...
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hi. for those who read the book of albert camus "the stranger" in what perspective or theory it can be seen?
for those who read the book of albert camus "the stranger" in what perspective or theory it can be seen? it's a work of philosophy but i'm misselead. thanks for answering
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When is the first appearance of Phosphorus after March 21, 2021?
Saul Kripke's argument, in his seminal 'Naming and Necessity', that Hesperus (the Evening Star) is necessarily Phosphorus (the Morning Star), has become one of the canonical examples of a posteriori ...
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How strong are arguments realting to cosmology in problems of personal identity?
Cosmology, with fairly low confidence, predicts that the universe (or multiverse) is infinite in both time and space. While this does not directly follow, it is also predicted that every possible ...
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Examples of known or fallow existential symbioses between different scientific disciplines (in an essential, not merely engineering, sense)
The film “The Proud Rebel” plays in the time after the American Civil War, featuring a father (John Chandler) who travels with his son David (that is also in real life actor Alan Ladd's son) who is ...
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Does every occurring type have at least one token?
Do all types which occur have tokens?
It is that between a thing, or type of thing, and (what is best called) an occurrence of it—where an occurrence is not necessarily a token.
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Self contradictory things that can't really exist: can they be fully conceived of?
It seems like we can conceive of self contradictory things that can exist. e.g. the proposition expressed by "this sentence is false" is self contradictory but I don't seem to have any trouble ...
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"Can be interpreted as" vs "Is"
Consider the following pairs of statements:
"I see what I interpret as a chair" vs. "I see a chair."
"This chair can be interpreted as a set of atoms" vs. "This ...
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View where personal identity is entirely subjective?
We care about our future selves, that is central to our lives, but whether a particular person is my future self or not is completely subjective. For example, in teleportation paradox, you can in ...
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