Abstract Identity puzzles like the Ship of Theseus turn on two questions, not one. The first is a question of ground: in virtue of what does an object remain the same—the persistence of its matter, or the persistence of its form? The second is a question of cardinality: how many bearers is the situation allowed—one … Continue reading Ground and Cardinality: The Two Dimensions of Identity Puzzles
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The Most Useful Word in Medicine
The Most Useful Word in Medicine One in nine of the physicians in the largest recent study of doctors who left American medicine never practiced it. They finished medical school. They finished residency — eight to ten years, the better part of a million dollars, the eighty-hour weeks, the whole sunk-cost cathedral — and then … Continue reading The Most Useful Word in Medicine
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