Open AccessComposición, identidad y cardinalidad
Author(s) -
Sebastián Briceño
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
revista de humanidades de valparaíso
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0719-4242
pISSN - 0719-4234
DOI - 10.22370/rhv2020iss16pp17-40
Subject(s) - identity (music) , dilemma , composition (language) , relation (database) , epistemology , virtue , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , aesthetics , database
In this article I attempt to give an account of the thesis according to which composition is identity and of the criticisms that might be formulated against it. According to a weak version of the thesis, composition, in virtue of being analogous in important respects to identity, is as ontologically innocent as identity. According to the strong version of the thesis, composition is literally a species of the generic relation of identity, and is as ontologically innocent as any species of identity. As we will see, the weak version begs the question or incurs in a non sequitur; and the strong version is incoherent and faces a dilemma. Thus, composition is not identity: one thing cannot be identical to many things.