What Is a Criterion of Identity?¶
Lowe, E. J. (1989). What Is a Criterion of Identity?. The Philosophical Quarterly, 39(154), 1-21.
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- Criteria of Individuation
- An essence can be perfectly specified while the count is still open: knowing water is H₂O fixes no answer to "how many bodies of water are in this watershed," and knowing the essence of
persondoes not by itself tell a registry which two records co-refer.This sourceAnalyses criteria of identity/individuation and the distinction between fixing a thing's kind and fixing how its instances are counted and re-identified.
- An essence can be perfectly specified while the count is still open: knowing water is H₂O fixes no answer to "how many bodies of water are in this watershed," and knowing the essence of
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