Identity, Leibniz's Law and Non-transitive Reasoning

Authors
Publication date 2013
Journal Metaphysica
Volume | Issue number 14 | 2
Pages (from-to) 253-264
Number of pages 12
Organisations
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Arguments based on Leibniz's Law seem to show that there is no room for either indefinite or contingent identity. The arguments seem to prove too much, but their conclusion is hard to resist if we want to keep Leibniz's Law. We present a novel approach to this issue, based on an appropriate modification of the notion of logical consequence.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12133-013-0125-2
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