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Sameness and substance renewed /

In this book, which thoroughly revises and greatly expands his classic work Sameness and Substance (1980), David Wiggins retrieves and refurbishes in the light of twentieth-century logic and logical theory certain conceptions of identity, of substance and of persistence through change that philosoph...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wiggins, David, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Machine derived contents note: 1. The absoluteness of sameness
  • 2. Outline of a theory of individuation
  • 3. Sortal concepts: their characteristic activity or function or purpose
  • 4. Essentialism and conceptualism
  • 5. Conceptualism and realism
  • 6. Vagueness, determinacy and identity: a conceptualist proposal
  • 7. Personal identity.