Objects and Identity: An Examination of the Relative Identity Thesis and Its Consequences

by Harold W. Noonan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 904818259X
• ISBN13: 9789048182596
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"