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Sameness and Substance Renewed.
In this book, which revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins examines the logic of identity, the ideas of substance and change, essence, predication and sortal predication, personhood, and personal memory.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; Preface; Preamble, chiefly concerned with matters methodological and terminological; CHAPTER ONE The absoluteness of sameness; CHAPTER TWO Outline of a theory of individuation; CHAPTER THREE Sortal concepts: and the characteristic activity or function or purpose of things falling under them; CHAPTER FOUR Individuative essentialism; CHAPTER FIVE Conceptualism and realism; CHAPTER SIX Identity: absolute, determinate, and all or nothing, like no other relation but itself 1; CHAPTER SEVEN Personal identity; Select bibliography; Index of names of persons cited or mentioned.