Changing objects (of any nature) pose a difficulty for the metaphysically-minded logician known as the Paradox of Change. Suppose a green apple becomes red. If A denotes the apple when green, and B when it is red then A = B (it is the same thing) but the properties of A and B are different: they have a different color. This is at odds with the Indiscernibility of Identicals thesis according to which identical things have identical properties.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAxiomatic Method and Category Theory
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages149-173
Number of pages25
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-319-00404-4
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-37551-9
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014

Publication series

NameSynthese Library
Volume364
ISSN (Print)0166-6991
ISSN (Electronic)2542-8292

    Scopus subject areas

  • History and Philosophy of Science
  • History
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Logic

    Research areas

  • Cardinal Number, Coincident Point, Intensional Logic, Mathematical Object, Proper Classis

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