Uwe Meixner on Individuation - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Individuation, philosophy: the picking out of an object by a determination by means of additional information which is not to be derived from a single statement which contains this object. For example, beliefs are individualized by content, not e.g. by the length of the character strings with which they are expressed. The contents of a belief are, in turn, not individuated by their repetition, but by other contents. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

Meixner, Uwe Books on Amazon	Individuation	I 58 Individuation: fictitious persons: by the set of associated properties (we have nothing else) - not possible with real individuals - (possibility of incompleteness or overdetermination) _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	Mei I U. Meixner Einführung in die Ontologie Darmstadt 2004

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