PHI-4500 Study Guide - Final Guide: Theory Of Relativity, Episodic Memory, Eliminative Materialism
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Ten of these will be on the exam; you will need to answer six of those. (total of 50% of the exam grade. ) Explain the difference between qualitative sameness and numerical sameness. The logical or conceptual relationship that occurs between a thing and itself in terms of being one and the same thing; this is a one-to-one relationship. Numerical identity requires absolute, or total, qualitative identity, and can only hold between a thing and itself. The logical or conceptual relationship that describes similarity or sameness of shared characteristics between two or more things; this is a one-to-many relationship. Things with qualitative identity share properties, so things can be more or less qualitatively identical. Poodles and great danes are qualitatively identical because they share the property of being a dog, and such properties as go along with that, but two poodles will (very likely) have greater qualitative identity.
