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Table of Contents
Introduction
The varieties of is
Individuals, kinds, and realism
Semantics, metaphysics, and necessity
New developments
Sortal terms and criteria of identity
Individuals, sorts, and instantiation
Number, unity, and individuality
The absoluteness of identity : a defence
Appendix: Some formal principles and arguments
Identity and constitution
Parts and wholes
Persons and their bodies
Matter and organisms
Organisms and persons
Is there a criterion of personal identity?
Sortal terms and natural laws
Plural quantification and sortal reference
Laws, dispositions, and sortal logic
Appendix: An axiomatic system of sortal logic
What sorts of things are there?
The syntax and semantics of complex sortal terms
On the identity of sorts.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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