Indeterminacy, identity and counterparts: Evans reconsidered
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Elizabeth Barnes Forthcoming in Synthese Abstract: In this paper I argue that Gareth Evans’ famous proof of the impossibility of metaphysically indeterminate identity fails on a counterpart-theoretic interpretation of the determinacy operators. I attempt to motivate a counterpart-theoretic reading of the determinacy operators and then show that, understood counterpart-theoretically, Evans’ argument is straightforwardly invalid.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Synthese
دوره 168 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009