Relative Identity

Philosophical Investigations 38 (1-2):52-71 (2015)
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Examples suggest that one and the same A may be different Bs, 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 Geach's idea that identity is relative. In this paper I evaluate Geach's relative identity thesis

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10.1111/phin.12076

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original Noonan, Harold (1997) "Relative Identity". In Hale, Bob, Wright, Crispin, Miller, Alexander, A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, pp. 1013–1032: Wiley-Blackwell (1997)

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