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Ontology vs. Ontogeny: A Dilemma for Identity Theorists

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

Roland Puccetti
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University

Extract

In a recent critical notice Myles Brand dismisses my evolutionary argument against the identity theory on grounds that the counterfactual situation I claim it allows for and cannot explain not actually occurring could never, on that theory, arise.

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Discussions/Notes
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1978

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Notes

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