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Objects and Identity - An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1980)
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Objects and Identity - An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1980)
Series: Melbourne International Philosophy Series, 6
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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.
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