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Leibniz's principle of identity of indiscernibles / Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von, 1646-1716.
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Gonzalo Rodríguez-Pereyra presents a new study of Leibniz's principle of the identity of indiscernibles - a principle which rules out numerically distinct but perfectly similar things. He explores Leibniz's definition of the principle, evaluates his arguments for and from it, and concludes that it was central but inessential to Leibniz's philosophy.
- Contents:
- The meaning and status of the identity of indiscernibles
- Some early texts
- The Discourse on metaphysics and Notationes generales
- Primary truths
- Leibniz's letter to Casati ; Appendix : translation of the letter
- Indiscernible possibilia and the perfection of the world
- The correspondence with Clarke
- Necessity revisited
- The Carteseian material world
- Atoms
- Space and time
- Minds
- Accidents.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 2, 2014).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-178101-0
- OCLC:
- 891701525
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