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Relative Identity
Author(s) -
Noonan Harold W.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12076
Subject(s) - appeal , identity (music) , sort , statement (logic) , epistemology , sociology , philosophy , computer science , political science , law , aesthetics , information retrieval
Examples suggest that one and the same A may be different B s, and hence that there is some sort of incompleteness in the unqualified statement that x and y are the same which needs to be eliminated by answering the question “the same what?” One way to make this more precise is by appeal to G each's idea that identity is relative. In this paper I evaluate G each's relative identity thesis.