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What Is Identity?
By C. J. F. Williams
236 pages
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- Clarendon Press
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- Oxford
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Synopsis
The concept of identity has been seen to lead to a paradox: we cannot truly and usefully say that a thing is the same either as itself or as something else. Williams here examines this paradox in philosophical logic, and its implications for the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and relativism about identity.Related books and articles at Questia
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- PREFACE vii
- CONTENTS xi
- ANALYTICAL TABLE OF CONTENTS xiii
- I the Paradox of Identity: Plato to Russell 1
- Iv Same and Self 59
- V Extensionalists and Relativists: An Eirenic Interlude 76
- Vi Identity and Indiscernibility 90
- Vii Arithmetical Equations 113
- Viii the Identity of Events 134
- Ix Personal Identity 153
- X Identity, Being, and Truth 185
- EXPRESSIONS GIVEN A LABEL IN THE TEXT 195
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 201
- INDEX 205