Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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I 1
Flux/Chisholm/Simons: problem: people have different parts at different times. This contradicts extensionality: only things with identical parts are identical.
>Extensionality, >Extension, >Process, >Change.
I 2
Modality: problem: e.g. a human could have other parts, as he/she has at the moment and yet could be the same human.
>Modalities.
I 118
Flux/mereology: winning and losing parts of objects constitutes the flux. Stock: Cartwright/Chisholm/Heller/Henry/Thomson/Invagen: only objects with temporal parts exist ((s) so no continuants (e.g. humans) but only events (processes) exist). These may change.
>Continuants, >Mereology.
Problem: e.g. Tibblles is unequal Tib before the accident, but identical after the accident. Problem: because Tib before equals after the accident, it follows from the transitivity of identity that Tibblles before accident is the same as Tib before the accident. This is a contradiction.
>Tibbles-example.
Solution/Simons: a solution offers the superposition but never the Leibnizean identity, because they differ in characteristics.
>Superposition, >Leibniz-Principle.

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