Identity and sortals (and Caesar)
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F17%3A00473533" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/17:00473533 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-016-9801-2" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-016-9801-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-016-9801-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10670-016-9801-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Identity and sortals (and Caesar)
Original language description
According to the sortal conception of the universe of individuals every individual falls under a highest sortal, or category. It is argued here that on this conception the identity relation is defined between individuals a and b if and only if a and b fall under a common category. Identity must therefore be regarded as a relation of the form x= Zy, with three arguments x, y, and Z, where Z ranges over categories, and where the range of x and y depends on the value of Z. An identity relation of this kind can be made good sense of in Martin-Löf’s type theory. But identity so construed requires a reformulation of Hume’s Principle that makes this principle unfit for explaining the sortal concept of cardinal number. The Neo-Logicist can therefore not appeal to the sortal conception in tackling the Julius Caesar problem, as proposed by Hale and Wright (The reason’s proper study. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 335–396, 2001b).
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Erkenntnis
ISSN
0165-0106
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
82
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
000394209600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-84955324832