PHL340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Intel Quickpath Interconnect, Iden, Personal Identity
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Russell is an object, so is your right thumb, so is mars: properties: qualities, features and attributes. Properties are also predicted by those objects: monadic properties: require the existence of one or more object, relations (polyadic properties): When we mean identity, we mean these two things: numerical identity: x and y are numerically identical iff they are one and the same thing, qualitative identity: x and y are qual. Iff they are perfectly similar (they have the same properties) Unstructured objects can remain the same (without too many drastic changes)- think of a pile of dirt. Artifacts can be the same iff their parts continue to be organized in such a way as to serve the same externally-defined functions: eg/ a cell phone that"s used is defined by their outside function. Living organisms: remain numerically identical over time iff their bodies continue to be organized in such a way to serve some internally defined function required to sustain life.
