What Is a Criterion of Identity?

Lowe, E. J. (1989). What Is a Criterion of Identity?. The Philosophical Quarterly, 39(154), 1-21.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1989

Volume

39

Issue

154

Pages

1-21

DOI

10.2307/2220347

DOI registrant

Oxford University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2220347

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philosophy

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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 person does 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.

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