Still Living Without Identity: Reply to Trueman

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (1):173-175 (2014)
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In ‘Eliminating Identity: A Reply to Wehmeier’, Robert Trueman attacks my claim that a commitment to a binary relation of identity is logically unnecessary and philosophically undesirable. I show that his two most serious objections are unconvincing.

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10.1080/00048402.2013.868009

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Eliminating identity: a reply to Wehmeier.Robert Trueman - 2014 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (1):1-8.

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