From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 25 2002 - 14:33:46 MDT
scerir wrote:
>
> The Identity of Indiscernibles is a principle of analytic ontology
> first explicitly formulated by Wilhelm Gottfried Leibniz in his
> Discourse on Metaphysics, Section 9 (Loemker 1969: 308). It states
> that no two distinct substances exactly resemble each other. This is
> often referred to as 'Leibniz's Law' and is typically understood to
> mean that no two objects have exactly the same properties. The
> Identity of Indiscernibles is of interest because it raises questions
> about the factors which individuate qualitatively identical objects.
> Recent work on the interpretation of quantum mechanics suggests that
> the principle fails in the quantum domain.
> http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-indiscernible/
> http://dmoz.org/Society/Philosophy/Philosophy_of_Logic/Identity/
### On the same site I found the following:
http://home.ican.net/~arandall/Indiscernibles/
Amazing! A derivation of the Many-Worlds Interpretation of OM starting with
Parmenides. I am pleasantly surprised that the ideas which developed in my
mind many years ago are in fact a very close approximation of Parmenides'
metaphysics. Also, some interesting materiel for the personal identity
discussion, inexorably leading towards the structuralist concept championed
by Lee and me.
Rafal
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