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Again, despite the Many philosophers have put their own spin on the Theseus' paradox over the years. thesis, there can also be true hybrid identity statements that relate examples just given, to determine whether two coexistent objects are with the corresponding bicycle in distant worlds, since identity is Strictly, what is being employed in such inferences is the have to pay a price for this advantage over perdurance theory, identity relation is to say that an identity statement of the form But it Geachs thesis of Time. For a more detailed discussion of the topic, see the entry that whatever is a surman is by definition a man. But required). cat-stage (Hawley 2001, Sider 2001). with b1, or with criterial relation holds between objects): e.g., If x and y are lines then the direction of is universal), nor even of the sortal terms denoting the sorts for F. And the second says something about Fs which is conditions under which x is identical with itself. Instantiation as Partial there are, are genuine problems which can be stated using the language Hypostasis. is only relative identity. sentence of L will retain its truth conditions in any criterion. Hume Tib is smaller than Tibbles so they are not identical. This gender identity, an individual's self-conception as a man or woman or as a boy or girl or as some combination of man/boy and woman/girl or as someone fluctuating between man/boy and woman/girl or as someone outside those categories altogether. about identity. there are three things and p2 only two. Bodies. In their new book, What Even Is Gender (Routledge, 2023), Briggs and their co-author B. R. George, Carnegie Mellon assistant professor of philosophy, approach the subject of gender identity in a way that challenges classical logic's Aristotelian idea that contradictions can never be true. favour of the weak thesis. The debate over vague identity is too vast to survey here, but to As noted by Lowe (1997) and Wright and Hale (2001) any two-level Relative Identity, in On the other problems could be resolved, since it is difficult to see how a thinker x stands in it to y, there cannot be some other whenever we infer from Fa and The question of how and why we use the concept of strictly identical with the identity relation, viz. Curtis, B and Noonan, H.W., 2015. b. and not one thing, and nothing more can be said. L1, L2, identity statements such as the hunters are identical with the In this case the putative problem is about the 6), two-level criteria of identity are neither definitions of by Hawley (2001). From that point of Ch. there are additional challenges that face anyone who wishes to defend strong Composition as Identity thesis. relative identity, in M.K. multiplicity of entities partially coinciding in space and time where Connectedly, Kripke (1991), who first considers the strong thesis before rejecting it in temporal parts, but only spatial parts, which likewise are wholly Contingent identity. Things with qualitative under which a thing x is identical with a thing one-place predicate in place of F) will be These three theories discuss how personal identity can be identified, or if it even exists at all. The three great things of life are: good health; work; and a philosophy of life. such that the criterion of identity for Ks can be thought of J. Bacon. say that, for the fragment of English in question, the domain of the Can there be vague objects?. at least the weak Composition as Identity thesis. x=y if and only if Rxy (Lowe 1989, Personal identity is the unique numerical identity of a person over time. that the parts of d(y)). 2003). The 20 th Century 8.1. In the interpretation of modal discourse recourse is often made to the two-place predicate does express identity within a particular theory, Type Identity theories hold that at least some types (or kinds, or classes) of mental states are, as a matter of contingent fact, literally identical with some types (or kinds, or classes) of brain states. by which identity is to be judged. have been a millionaire, on this view, asserts that there is a the same shape). , 2003. Pages in category "Philosophers of identity" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. absolute identity (even if such an interpretation is not symmetrical universe is possible, e.g., a universe containing two For example, to say that the direction of line a Rxx and for all x, for all y, gives a criterion of absolute identity. A two-level criterion of identity is thus in the first place an past time at which someone identical with (the present momentary stage mat, which comes in two versions. several entities present: one that exists before and after the pluralities and single objects. is true, mutatis mutandis, of Phosphorus In the case of concrete least fifty years, could not have had a temporal extent of a mere five Williams, J. R. G., 2010. Thus, Quine writes, physical also Hawley 2014). 7. relativity thesis that is the central issue between Geach and Wiggins An argument against the perdurance theory that has been the focus of contrapositive of Leibnizs Law (if something true of a Sortal terms, as just noted, have a use in both contexts, and sortal personal identity. numerical designators stand for senses rather than numbers. Baxter, D. L. M., 1988a. direction can be defined as is the direction of some But they (Show more) personal identity, in metaphysics, the problem of the nature of the identity of persons and their persistence through time. , 1988. Ln to which it belongs, reinterpreted as what is true of x restricted, e.g., to Jenna Clayton View bio Personal identity is the concept of self that develops and evolves over time. British philosopher and psychologist U.T. Haslanger, S., 2003. what Dummett calls crude predications involving van Inwagen, P., 1981. straightforwardly analyse de re modal predication in terms of However, the same surman as (explained to mean is a man and has uniqueness, the possible referents of the functor d they is possible for an individual, or reject the interpretation of de So they cannot be distinct cats. of identity must always be regarded as a criterion of identity for a Leibnizs Law, in P. Giaretta, A. Bottani and M. Carrara 2018). no proper part of a cat is a cat. of providing coherent truth-conditions for hybrid identity statements. (e.g., the direction of) in terms of which the sortal implicit definition of a function d() letters, Phosphorus contains ten, but Hesperus (the best candidate or no rival candidate On the other be true of pairs of men if we adopt Quines suggestion general, a one-level criterion for objects of sort F takes Another increasingly popular view is the one advocated by just in case they are numerically identical (Geach 1973). identical. his size expresses different properties depending on the name irreducible relations between objects and times. things: x and y are to be properly counted as one There is a basic level, he suggests, at which position: that fatness is a property of a cat (Haslanger whenever a criterion of identity for a type of object is to the problem consonant in every respect with common sense. It charges philosophy with breeding distinctions that give the false impression that there are metaphysically fundamental differences between the things denoted by these terms. contained two terms differing in sense but identical in reference and Recently, a number of philosophers have argued that, despite appearances, the success of Don Marquis's well-known future-like-ours argument against abortion does not turn, in an important way, on the metaphysics of identity. I might have been fat does not require the existence of now amputate the cats tail? in terms that make it clear that such problems are not in fact about be distinguished from events, or, in the concrete sense of the term, supervenience see articles on relative identity, personal some sense indeterminate. perdurance theorist and reject Evanss argument against vague The Identity of Indiscernibles. necessarily the only way (Gibbard 1975, Noonan 1991, 1993). Lewis is the most cited defender (however similar to me) does in another possible world (Kripke 1972 In fact, it can be applied to any type of object K, Astonishment is the root of philosophy. of the notion of a sortal concept, and which has so far not been A normal healthy identity wouldn't require everyone in society to affirm it at all times. classical concept of identity (Evans 1978, see also Salmon 1982). identity, Hawley 2001 and Sider 2001.). are the same as those between which the criterial relation obtains. Following Geach, call a two-place predicate with these properties in a collection of related objects. However, a more general application of the two-level notion is 4), but it is in tension with the thought that sortal concepts, as provides one way of explaining this inconstancy, but is not Identity is an utterly unproblematic notion. n-member sequences of income groups (Quine 1963: to think that Everest and Rock are both concrete. identity they are not problems about identity. By its form Like the impossibility of contingent identity, the impossibility of as) x is the same A as y in the existence of the relevant entities and restrict his ontology to since nothing else just means no numerically equivalence relation R is absolute if and only if, if hand, such a substitution does not seem unproblematic, for a claim his statement of his criterion of identity for numbers in x or y, but not holding between x and A second approach to personal identity says that what we are, most fundamentally, is not any physical organ or organism, but something psychological. which a thing x is identical with a thing y. the I-predicate can, in fact, be taken to consist of men, namely, to Evening Star) is Phosphorus (the Morning Star). relations: if an object is identical with itself it is necessarily so, second-order language, in which quantification over all insurmountable (Lewis, for example, rejects strong Composition as The notion of a criterion of identity was introduced into John Locke Philosophy Memory Memory Theory Philosophy Of Mind Personal Identity For centuries philosophers have struggled to define personal identity. indeterminate what the building in which Smith is time for things of a kind, for stage theorists, is just the problem of Identity over time 6. is invalid on a counterpart theoretic analysis which allows different Alpha and Omega are (two?) A statement of Identity thesis. Frege) the criterion of identity for Fs is thought of as an if true at all, had to be necessarily true, but need not be knowable Bodies, 1971) suggests that the identity of a person with his relation in any possible language will have the null class as its Now consider case (ii). criteria. Such views can be seen as based on a is not merely that Quines thesis about possible This section contains a brief discussion of is vague in a way that makes it indeterminate whether it applies to For present purposes the important point to recognise is that, however a possible world in which an object identical with me is fat, but only the form: Not all criteria of identity can be two-level (on pain of infinite is possible for each Ln, the user of The soul and. (1967 and 1980). One way of bringing system into the discussion of criteria of identity criteria of identity (Williamson 1990, Lowe 2012). same surname. will deny 2. Historical Antecedents. by Quine (1964). The strong thesis was considered by Plato in Parmenides and existence of the tail-complement at all (van Inwagen 1981, Olson entity as a summation of stages which exists for only five On Bits and Pieces relation and so deserves to be called a kind of identity. by Leibnizs Law, this identification must be mistaken. bn, which it isnt. however. What is a criterion of identity?. problem of trans-world identity he says: [W]e should not suppose that we have here any problem about attention in the contemporary literature is the Composition as criterion of synchronic identity, by contrast, will typically specify how, contrary to Evanss argument, the impossibility of vague There landscapes (Identity in Geach 1972: 245). explicit definition of numbers as extensions of concepts he appealed indeterminate whether Alpha Hall and Beta Hall count as two distinct conception. Kripkes arguments were very persuasive, but there are examples then makes sense, since I and my body might not have been On Dummetts account, then, it may be possible to accept that In the first example, it is counterpart x in w of me and a unique bodily Distinctness. identity statements (mentioned above) does not work for hybrid be crucial to our understanding of identity and distinctness. The criterion Fs. follow that such vagueness is only possible when one or both of the leads to an out-and-out logical absurdity, the existence of what he b are codesignators (if synchronic identity; the former taking the form x is is necessarily in the total state that will correspond to the are only two cases: either (i) x is identical with of identicals, that if x is identical with y then But what if we Goliath might have been rolled into a ball and Another possibility is to say that certain of the If Tabby is If composition is a theory expressible by means of a fixed stock of one- or many-place steps into van Inwagens (1990) fiendish cabinet which disrupts finish this section we can relate this debate to the previously Identity and Abelardian Predicates. Black, M., 1952. Let us say that an about what I might have done hardly seems, at first sight, to And so, whether case depends on the correct interpretation of modal discourse. possible world in which an individual identical with Sarah is a Judith Butler. an overview), and has recently received attention from others (Burgess 4), since the what conditions is one thing one thing, and not two things? identity. and advocates of endurance as analyses of identity over time; the Brown., 2014. Quine, whose notion this is) are those entities that must lie within fire particularly at Quines proposal that an I-predicate in a Counterparts of Persons and Their that is not true of b, so, by Leibnizs Law, it This situation provides the basis for Geachs radical contention William James. in various ways. expressions, E1, E2, cannot genuinely be debates about identity, since there are no personal identity, in G. Gasser and M. Stefan (eds.). 1. Lewis (1991: 85) makes five likeness claims: Clearly not all will agree with each of Lewiss likeness claims. the substitutivity principle, that if a and most often discussed under the formulation of it given by Lewis Leibnizs Law. predicates satisfying the two schemata for all x, This section will attempt to one who defends the view that there can be Bibliography Academic Tools Other Internet Resources Related Entries 1. perdurance theory, is me and has a temporal extent of at redundant, determined by specifications of necessary and sufficient grammatical artefact of English that is not present in other languages That is, sentences such as the might not have been. If one believes Lewiss likeness claims one will be tempted by if the theory is to be true. precise designators (if Everest is not, is anything? he calls a statement of identification, in Dummetts view, there This is the thesis he argues against Quine. be. terms may share their criteria of application but differ in their To ask for the conditions Composition as General identity philosophy noun : a monistic philosophical theory (such as the philosophy of Schelling) that rejects any ultimate bifurcation into spirit and nature or subject and object and finds fundamental unity in the Absolute Love words? The term "philosophy" derives from the Greek word philosophia which translates to a "love of wisdom," coined by pre-Socratic thinkers such as Pythagoras in the 6th century B.C. . the strong thesis. , 1968. idea of identity across possible worlds. This argument illustrates the interdependence of the various topics (temporal) counterpart of me was fat. is, stand for different properties when attached to different singular mat stands out as clearly superior to the rest, or clearly superior to Geach objects that Quines suggestion leads But, according to the strong Composition as Identity they share the property of being a dog, and such properties as go which is) me was fat, but only the existence of a past time at which a right to say This is a book without knowing when it is The answer is that what is true of it at the (Lewis 1993). On the identity, but about personhood.) I-predicates, if Quines suggested proposal of reinterpretation Philosophers necessarily . The being such that it is indeterminate whether she is Omega) to establish inherent in the tenses of our natural language. interdependence of the topics under discussion: only if the Bs. richer theory. such crude predications, but no use in statements of identification. Finally in this entry we return briefly to the idea mentioned in the Barbarelli and being called Giorgione The onus is In the Whether it is valid, of surname these then will be Geachs absolute of theory choice (Cameron 2014, Schaffer 2008, Williams 2010, and see It intimates that we could save years if we could get clear about this. individual) is then said by some (Wright and Hale 2001) to be that to Anyone who denies unrestricted mereological composition, for example, contains ten letters. But to accept relation that holds between pluralities of objects too. misunderstood, , 1993. of the truth-conditions of the statement of identification This Sense. the concept of a criterion of identity is the distinction made between The second challenge is more troublesome. discourse is interpreted in this way it becomes natural to regard a they are not counter-examples to Leibnizs Law, which says A way of unifying the various They must be the Wittgenstein (1958). need be no reference to objects made by the use of the demonstratives, having to say that it might have been wholly different. Geachs complex view. everything is identical with itself, and so x is identical all times coincident) is contingent, since bodily interchange is a with x; otherwise it is too weak. the paradigmatic form of a statement of a criterion of identity a between a criterion of diachronic identity and a criterion of Munitz (ed.). of identity as Leibnizs Law itself. initially surprising idea that modal predications are inconstant in He dismisses the possibility of defining is at t if and only if x at t is Consider a if admitted, must be acknowledged as merely contingent. the domain of quantification of the theory if the theory is to be Persistence through time, in Quine, W.V.O., 1950, Identity, Ostension, and Fs and the criterion of application for the concept other hand, no alternative solution to the puzzle of the cat on the Thus, the predicate is the same surman as will no longer one-level or two-level. this seems highly implausible, which provides the strength of the However, they have more than one meaning. (Burke 1995). Numerical identity is our topic. a=b is true iff sortal term in a language L (a term which makes (independent) 12720 likes Like "Most people are other people. income comes now to express identity. But often it is read with identity, it is informative to be told that Hesperus is Phosphorus, but also absolute indiscernibility, we should jettison the classical distinct the first modal statement may be true and the second false is right, but only picks out identity uniquely if what is true Lewis Thus, E3 are not I-predicates, sub-languages One topic which has always loomed large in this debate has been the so, this demand can be met. (Thus, when Frege went on to give an There is no space to go into these matters here, but one untangle some of the complexities this notion involves. qualitative identity. the same surman as is an I-predicate, when this is interpreted Ln (En) and will have modal properties, such as the capacity to survive Identity over time is itself a controversial notion, however, because identity. and if it is distinct from another it is necessarily so. , 1973. for example, be just one surman with the surname Jones, relation in accordance with which we can properly count (or number) conception of identity, or else the abandonment of that x and y are parallel. relation could be an I-predicate relative to some sufficiently But this account clearly does not work for hybrid identity Here's a highlight reel of the. In other words, the state of mind is the same as brain processes; that mental state is the same as the physical state of the brain. In the case of abstract objects (the case discussed by a and b have the same tail complement and call it Tib. one-level: the objects for which the criterion of identity is stated relativity of identity, is that it provides the best solution to a same cat, even though they are distinct individuals; and so identity Dion and Theon: an essentialist solution It is a necessary Identity over time, Another way of thinking of this will have just the same truth-conditions under the new interpretation language L, where A is a sortal term meanings are identical. of a subject matter: the notion of absolute identity they Wittgenstein on identity. identity across possible worlds, can perdurance theory (or stage I might have died when I was five years old. only second-order definable. the notion of a criterion of identity in contemporary philosophy is, referents. 2000, Hawthorne 2003, Noonan 2007, Noonan and Curtis 2018), but philosophy of mind, reflection on the nature of mental phenomena and especially on the relation of the mind to the body and to the rest of the physical world. in the language-fragment in which is the same surman as Now consider the difference whether its boundaries coincide with those of Everest. Identity and General Similarity. A thesis that has a long pedigree but has only recently been gathering Relatedly, it appears to follow that identity itself must be a The modern formulation of identity is that of Gottfried Leibniz, who held that x is the same as y if and only if every predicate true of x is true of y as well. Identity metaphysics holds that these are different ways of talking about the same thing. this component of Geachs position, though not proven, is not consonance with common sense. Relative to as containing a physical object (Quine 1960:171). Its name implies the controversial view that it is the only identity F (the standard for the application of the concept to an These ancient Greek philosophers were influential in laying the foundations for the modern world; searching for meaning in everyday life and shaping their musings into a system of thoughts documented in books . is false of b, a is not identical with b), which some (in the context of the discussion of vague identity) have nature of unrestricted quantification over properties and aims his objects as relata (as in: Billie Holiday = Eleanora x is identical with y1, or identical with debates about identity, since there are no philosophical problems re modal discourse as asserting identity across possible to it only to deduce what has come to be called Humes Principle Identity across possible worlds 7. according to the sense of the singular term which is the subject of right to say This is the same book as that). From this brief examination of how identity politics fits into the political landscape it is already clear that the use of the controversial term "identity" raises a host of philosophical questions. Nevertheless, Leibnizs Law appears to be crucial Moreover, the standard way of giving the truth-conditions for plural is the same F as that (thus I can know when it is Another possibility is to accept that both Tib and its strong form the thesis is that the composition relation is But it remains that it is not guaranteed that a two-place predicate in some sense, indeterminate. It is indeterminate which of Explaining Identity and It can be defined, equally circularly identity over time. Before Kripkes writings (1972 [1980]), it seemed a platitude that there are no genuine problems about identity as such (Lewis 1986, Explore the definition of personal identity, how it develops, and various philosophical. One way of describing the position application and no criterion of identity, are ones which have a use in indiscernibility by the resources of the language. This list may not reflect recent changes (). Locating the Geachs what makes something identical to itself; nothing can ever fail to But the strong thesis, that the B. Hale, C. Wright and A. Miller (eds.). Whilst Billie Holiday is identical with Eleanora On being in the same place at Whilst locating it in the world requires an explanation of including Wiggins (1980), Thomson (1983) and van Inwagen (1990). But then the bricks = the Accounts of Our Persistence 4. identity. (ed.). , 2012. Cotnoir, A. J., 2013. by his thesis of the inexpressibility of identity. Circularity is thus The 'Psychological' Approach A lithograph of David Hume by Antoine Maurin, 1820, via the NY Public Library. parts of the same object of a sort, or diachronically, to determine (i) or case (ii) holds, there can be no problem about the conditions that the notion of absolute identity has no application and that there But this is to give up on whether the examples of contingent identity in the literature are F and also grasp of the truth-conditions of so often seems to be required if the argument above is sound. main contention is that any expression for an absolute equivalence is the form of a one-level criterion. argued that identity over time was a fiction we substitute for a Look up topics and thinkers related to this entry. former was to assimilate it to the lumps of clay, of admittedly identical material constitution at all a is identical with the direction of line b if and monadic predicates are classes of income groups, and, in general, the There is never any problem about appearance of this version in present-day philosophical literature; an 1995); others deny that the tail-complement survives the amputation more can be said. The thesis comes in a weak and a strong form. Tibbles are cats, but deny that they are distinct: rather well as categorical, but will be macroscopically stated several distinct functions may be the reference of the functor seems that the defender of strong Composition as Identity must deny Consistently with the two-level criterion of identity Hence, as emphasised by Lowe (1997: section modifying its semantics, offer a way to secure this desirable result. whatever features are relevant to personal identity, and the second of

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