PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Begging The Question, Moral Responsibility
15 Nov 2016
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Metaphysics what the world is really like. What makes me myself and not someone else: the way we talk, character traits, moral responsibility. Tokens different things of the same type. This is the difference between identity of type and token. Indiscernibility of identity: if x is identical to y, then x and y have exactly the same properties, if x and y have all the same properties, then x is identical to y. But some things don"t always have the same properties. Always a problem for identity over time for all objects. Tree = organization of physical matter (not the physical matter itself) What is consciousness: your thoughts and memories. Soul substrate in which thoughts are laid. In all these cases, its not because its all the same particles. A = b and b = c, but a does not equal c. Due march 10, 11am, you will write a summary of descartes" mediations 1 and 2.
