Aristotle on identity: close enough!-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Aristotle on identity: close enough!

Published:2023-07-31 Issue:2255 Volume:381 Page:
ISSN:1364-503X
Container-title:Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

Author:

Muller F. A.¹²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam 3062 PA, The Netherlands

2. Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Abstract

We present what Aristotle wrote on identity in a leisurely manner, which is much more than is generally known, save among the cognoscenti (Aristotle scholars), and mutatis mutandis about the introduction of the identity-symbol ( = ) . We add two codas, one on the so-called Leibniz’ Law, which is different (but resembles) what passes for it in logic and philosophy, and one on the status of identity, as accepted by mathematicians and logicians, in physics. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Identity, individuality and indistinguishability in physics and mathematics’.

Publisher

The Royal Society

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics

Link

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsta.2022.0102

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