PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Physicalism
15 May 2017
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This might not be expressible in a sentence but it is knowledge all the same, and it is more Jackson: the knowledge argument is not about imagination: mary argument shows that perfect physical knowledge of the world isn"t all the knowledge we can get. What does it mean for a and b to be identical. Strict sense: a and b are identical if they have exactly the same properties. Stephen harper and the prime minister of canada are identical. The looser sense: a and b are identical when they share some (important) properties. E. g. two bars of soap can be identical. Philosophers are concerned with the second kind of identity. The ship of theseus and other problems of identity. One of oldest paradoxes of identity and persistence plutarch. They took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new/stronger timbre.
