Plato: Theaetetus by John McDowell

Author:John McDowell [McDowell, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780198720836
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Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 1921-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

b. It is still not clear how, exactly, (C3) is supposed to follow from (2) or (3). We may conjecture, perhaps, that the line of thought is as follows. From (3) we are to infer:

(3’) If something is unlike something, then it is different from it. And from (3’) we are to infer (C3).

Both steps of such an argument call for some comment. i. The inference from (3) to (3’) would be fallacious; but that might be missed because of the independent plausibility of (3’). Whether ‘unlike’ is understood in the ordinary way or in the special way suggested above, (3’) would be warranted by the principle nowadays known as Leibniz’s Law,

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