Eliminating identity: a reply to Wehmeier

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (1):1-8 (2014)
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Wehmeier [2012] argues that identity is a problematic relation and that we can eliminate all mention of it. In this note I show, to the contrary, that if identity is problematic then Wehmeier has not given us the means to dispense with it.

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Robert Trueman
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