A narrative account of the reasoning chain — how a remark about a physicist's "second dial" became a theorem that no contentful verdict can be neutral, and why the path had the shape it did. Orientation This is the genesis document for three others: a paper on ground and cardinality in identity puzzles, the Seat … Continue reading The Road to the Seat Theorem
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Ground and Cardinality: The Two Dimensions of Identity Puzzles
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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