What is Identity?

C. J. F. Williams (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

232 Seiten

1989
Clarendon Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-824808-8 (ISBN)

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The concept of identity has been seen to lead to a paradox - we cannot truly and usefully say that a thing is the same either as itself or as something else. This book is a full examination of this paradox in philosophical logic, and of its implications for the philosophy of mathematics.

The concept of identity has been seen to lead to paradox: we cannot truly and usefully say that a thing is the same either as itself or as something else. This book is a full examination of this paradox in philosophical logic, and of its implications for the philosophy of mathematics, the philosphy of mind, and relativism about identity. The author's account involves detailed discussion of the views of Wittgenstein, Russell, Frege, and Hintikka.

The paradox of identity: Plato to Russell; Wittgenstein: Identity not a relation; The need for a sign of identity; Same and self; An Eirenic interlude; Identity and indiscernibility; Arithmetical equations; The identity of events; Personal identity; Being, identity and truth

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.12.1989
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	144 x 223 mm
Gewicht	415 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-19-824808-3 / 0198248083
ISBN-13	978-0-19-824808-8 / 9780198248088
Zustand	Neuware