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Ideas of Lynne Rudder Baker, by Text

[American, fl. 1997, At the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst.]

1997	Why Constitution is not Identity

Intro

p.599

16076

Constitution is not identity, as consideration of essential predicates shows

II

p.603

16078

Clay is intrinsically and atomically the same as statue (and that lacks 'modal properties')

IV

p.611

16080

Is it possible for two things that are identical to become two separate things?

IV

p.613

16081

The constitution view gives a unified account of the relation of persons/bodies, statues/bronze etc

n9

p.602

16077

The clay is not a statue - it borrows that property from the statue it constitutes

V

p.620

16082

Statues essentially have relational properties lacked by lumps