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Priest’s Motorbike and Tolerant Identity

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In his chapter ‘Non-transitive identity’ [8], Graham Priest develops a notion of non-transitive identity based on a second-order version of \(LP\). Though we are sympathetic to Priest’s general approach to identity we think that the account can be refined in different ways. Here we present two such ways and discuss their appropriateness for a metaphysical reading of indefiniteness in connection to Evans’ argument.

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  1. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Navarra, 31009, Pamplona, Spain

    Pablo Cobreros

  2. Institut Jean-Nicod, Département d’Etudes Cognitives, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 29, rue d’Ulm, Pavillon Jardin - 1er étage, 75005, Paris, France

    Paul Egré

  3. Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut, 344 Mansfield Rd Storrs, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA

    David Ripley

  4. Feculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Oude Turfmarkt 143, 1012 GC, Amsterdam, Netherland

    Robert van Rooij

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Correspondence to Pablo Cobreros , Paul Egré , David Ripley or Robert van Rooij .

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  1. Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Roberto Ciuni

  2. Department of Philosophy II, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

    Heinrich Wansing

  3. Dresden, Germany

    Caroline Willkommen

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Cobreros, P., Egré, P., Ripley, D., van Rooij, R. (2014). Priest’s Motorbike and Tolerant Identity. In: Ciuni, R., Wansing, H., Willkommen, C. (eds) Recent Trends in Philosophical Logic. Trends in Logic, vol 41. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06080-4_6

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