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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wiggins, David, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Identity (Philosophical concept)
Individuation (Philosophy)
Essentialism (Philosophy)
Conceptualism.
Substance (Philosophy)
Identité.
Individu (Philosophie)
Essence (Philosophie)
Conceptualisme.
Substance (Philosophie)
identity.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Identität
Substanz
Individuatie.
Essentie.
Identiteit.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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