Lexicon of Arguments

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Pauen I 161
Identity/Kripke/Pauen: Thesis: identity must be necessary if it is to be identity at all.
Cf. >Identity/Kripke.
E.g. either it is true in all worlds that C-fiber irritation is identical with pain or it is not true in any - they are not identical then.
>Possible worlds, >Necessity, >Pain, >Identity theory.
I 162
VsKripke/Pauen: there seems to be an argument against it: heat is also a rigid designation expression (kinetic energy) but we can imagine a world in which we have heat sensation without molecular motion.
>Rigidity, >Conceivability.
KripkeVsVs: then it is about heat sensation, not heat.
Imaginability/Pauen: is crucial for Kripke. - The imaginability of pain, which are not irritated C-fibers, eliminates the identity.
Today largely accepted: that psychophysical identity, if it exists at all, must be necessary.

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