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Objects and Identity
Harold W. Noonan
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paperback. Series: Melbourne International Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 527.
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 recognized, that there has been a keen interest in the notion, fonnulated by him, of a criterion of identity. This, at first sight harmless as well ... Read more
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 recognized, that there has been a keen interest in the notion, fonnulated by him, of a criterion of identity. This, at first sight harmless as well ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Melbourne International Philosophy Series
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048182596
SKU
V9789048182596
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